In the 96/97 school year there were almost 500 teams from the US and another 8 countries participating in the Math Modelling Contest. Our team chose to attempt to simulate the second problem, and tried to come up with a strategy for both the raptors and the prey. In nutshell, the problem was the following. There are two velociraptors that are to catch a prey. As we know now, the velociraptors hunted together and used advanced strategies to catch their preys. So our task is to simulate how these two raptors try to catch the prey, and also how the prey attempts to survive and escape from them.

Here is our solution.

      I thought it would be a nice project to finish the program up. It has some flaws in it, some sign is messed up with the angle-converting part, I will fix it someday, and post the complete source code here. Until then, I would like to hear from you out there, perhaps you know how we could improve on the program. Any suggestion is welcome.

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