{"id":32,"date":"2009-03-21T11:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:49:10","slug":"netlogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/2009\/03\/21\/netlogo\/","title":{"rendered":"NetLogo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m checking out NetLogo<\/a>, from Northwestern university.<\/p>\n

It’s free software that allows you to do simple programming that can result in startlingly complex visual models. The creators call it “a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment.”<\/p>\n

It somewhat reminds me of the The Game of Life<\/a>, which you can play in Mathematica<\/a> from Wolfram Software. That’s a cellular automaton game, but NetLogo, while rules-based seems capable of much more complexity.<\/p>\n

A fairly simple example is Follower<\/a>, in which turtles must follow other turtles. There are only 4 possible states in this example:<\/p>\n

\n – Unattached
\n – Following another turtle (a “tail”)
\n – Being followed by another turtle (a “head”)
\n – Following and being followed by other turtles (a “body” segment)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A more complex example is Mimicry<\/a>, an evolution model in which butterflies are eaten by birds preferentially based on color – a signal for good or bad food – and reproduce differentially based on population size, mutation, and other factors.<\/p>\n

Very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m checking out NetLogo, from Northwestern university. It’s free software that allows you to do simple programming that can result in startlingly complex visual models. The creators call it “a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment.” It somewhat reminds me of the The Game of Life, which you can play in Mathematica from Wolfram Software. That’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3206,84,1167,3205],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-modeling","tag-programming","tag-serious-games","tag-simulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/techmathscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}