Scans the world around your creature's current location in a circular area and returns an ArrayList of OrganismState objects representing what was seen.

The radius scanned by your creature is dependent upon the number of points placed into the EyesightPoints attribute. Animals may also hide within your radius by using camouflage. This means that more points placed into the EyesightPoints attribute will yield a better vision of hidden creatures.

Because of camouflage and the random aspect of hiding vs. being seen by another creature, multiple calls to Scan might returns different results. However, each call to Scan also takes additional time from your creature's total timeslice.

It is recommended that you hold onto the OrganismState objects, determine your target creature, and then use the LookFor method to update the state rather than calling the Scan method again. The LookFor method also takes into account camouflage and may not work the first time, but is much less expensive timewise than Scan.