Created By: Kevin Jiang, Cullen Wong, Stephen Halter

 Use parallel processing to make a program that can play a game (Risk) and learn throughout the game which strategy works best and then implement that strategy (use AI)  Make each processor control an individual player in the game and have each player to start off with different characteristics (personality)

 Used C++ to create our main program  Used MPI (Message Passing Interface) within C++ to communicate between processors  Used GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) to create our countries and key for visualization  Made a movie for the visualization using MATLAB

 Risk is a very intellectually challenging board game.  The point of the game is to take over all the territories in the world and wipe out all the other players  Up to 6 people can play in a single game.  Players take turns moving, attacking, or fortifying.

 Players are randomly assigned territories and can add a certain amount armies to their territories at the beginning of the game  Player get several more armies to add to their territories with each successive turn  Players can only attack the other territories that border territories which they control.  During an attack, the attacking and defending players roll dice. The outcome of the roll decides how many armies each side looses during an attack

 Only 6 territories (One for each continent) instead of the normal 48  All processors start on same territory every time the program is run  No Cards  Army fortification is slightly different  Dice rolling with minute armies are different  Otherwise the Rules are all like the real Risk

 Our program goes through several steps to complete one turn. The processor is allowed to attack as many times as it seems fit in one turn  Each processor has a different personality which can be more or less aggressive  The processor decides when to attack and where to attack through complicated algorithms

 Each processor implements AI, meaning it can learn from its past successes and mistakes to improve its play later in the game  Using a random number generator method we can simulate dice being rolled. This makes the program different each time it is run.

 We constructed our C++ program to create a log (output) file that can be inputted directly into MATLAB  MATLAB then displays the results of each move from the game frame by frame on a world map  We then turn those frames into a movie  The movie can be completed within just minutes after the original C++ program is started.

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