Defining Ant Shapes

The *Ant Shape* workspace

Fig. 4 fort-studio Ant Shape workspace

[1]: Ant Close-Up View that allow to specify the virtual shape of a given Ant. [2]: Ant Close-Ups List, similarly to the Tag Close-Up List, allows to select a Close-Up for an Ant, but here organize Close-Up per Ant instead of per Tag. [3]: The toolbar that allow the edition of the Capsules defining the shape of the Ant. [4] Ant Shape Type List is used to define the list of shape types for the Experiment.

The Ant Shape workspace is used to define, view and edit the virtual shape of any Ant.

Warning

fort-studio defines no default list of ant shape type. Before drawing any shape, one must define the wanted shape type for the experiment in the Ant Shape Type List (see figure Fig. 4).

Note

To avoid defining the same shape for every single ant in the experiment, the Edit > Clone Current Ant Shape action can be used. Individual shapes can still be edited afterwards.

Shortcuts

The same navigation shortcuts from the Identification workspace are available:

  • Move to previous/next tag: Alt+W/Alt+S

  • Move to previous/next close-up: Alt+A/Alt+D