Homework 3

I’d like to simulate animals breaking out of Central Park Zoo and running around the city. This would be a good way to work with agent based models and see how the animals interacted with the urban/park environment, with each other and with other humans in the area.

Premise: Animals from Central Park Zoo escape and are running all over the park

Map Base:

-code the environment

-Buildings

-Trees

-water

-paths

Agents: Animals

Penguins

Leopard

Bear

Sloth

Otter

Bird

Pigeons

Humans

Parameters for the Agents:

Movement

Speed of movement

Where to move?

Rules:

- Predator meets prey. Prey flees. Predator attacks. Predator either gets prey or doesn’t. Symbolized by dead prey symbol.

- Movement: Different movement actions: chase prey, find water, find vegetation, run away to city

• Speed of movement: changes all the time depending on the rules

my population below is represented by squares, with all of them moving randomly at different speeds

x = 100
y = 100
xspeed = 10
yspeed = 20
popSize = 150
noiseValue = 0
noiseScale = 0.20
def setup():
    size(800,800)
    i = 10
    for i in range(popSize):
        x = random(10,width)
        y = random(10,height)
        stroke(0)
        rect(x,y,10,10)
def draw():
    global x, y, xspeed, yspeed
    fill(0)
    fill(0)
    background(0)
    for y in range(height):
        for x in range(width):
            noiseValue = noise(x * noiseScale, y * noiseScale)
            stroke(noiseValue * 20)
            point(x, y)
i = 0
    for i in range(popSize/2):
        x = random(0,width)
        y = random(0,height)
        noStroke()
        fill(random(0,100), random(0,100),random(0,100))
        rect(x,y,15,15)
    frameRate(10)
    for i in range(popSize/2):
        x = random(0,width)
        y = random(0,height)
        noStroke()
        fill(random(0,255), random(0,255),random(0,255))
        rect(x,y,15,15)