Wind Riders

Little agents with evolved neural brains learning to cross today's real wind field from the left edge to a goal on the right, on a fuel budget. Each generation keeps the brains that got closest.

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Chapter 11 (Neuroevolution). Inputs are the local wind vector, bearing to goal, and remaining fuel; outputs are thrust and turn. A genetic algorithm breeds the weights, so the flock discovers strategies suited to the actual forecast.

Data: Open-Meteo forecast wind grid (public, no key). Brains evolve in the browser; nothing is saved.