On 9/6/06, Phil Henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display accumulative > variance? > > If you were to design one to do that, would it have a structure > comparable to populations of organisms living in ecologies?
One of my models, "chain-of-fools" is a swarm where the members simply try to follow each other--rather, each follows one specific other, in a chain. But with some settings, the group does some interesting things, including random-walk like movement. I think some of it has to do with rounding errors in the math, but it's still interesing. http://www.turtlezero.com/models/models.php?model=chain-of-fools If it weren't for the boundaries of the screen, the chain would travel all over. Would this count? ~~James _____________________ http://www.turtlezero.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
