Grid

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Grid Code


 * The Self-Generative Grid**

The purpose of this model was to serve as an initial attempt at writing code from scratch in NetLogo. It is a simple Agent-Based-Model, in which there is no interaction between agents (turtles) or their environment (patches). The agents have a very simple set of behaviors, in which they originate from a single central point (superficially functioning as a point-of-origin Aleph), reproduce and move. There is a 50/50 chance that the agents will move to the left and forward, or to the right and forward, consequently re-initiating the decision making process. This pattern of behavior, when included in a field of which the edges wrap around (generating effectively a sphere without the necessary complex mathematics involved, but merely the utilization of the numerical pairing of edge coordinates with their opposites) unintentionally, though logically, generates a grid when a line records the movement of each agent. The agents are color-coded based upon behavior. The White Agent initiates the process. At a later stage, a Grey Agent is added and commences recording, adding an illusory depth of field to the emerging grid (with white as the potentially perceived foreground and grey as the background). The final Agent-Type is the Red Agent, which is programmed as an Erasure, effectively following the same codes of conduct, only that in lieu of recording lines, it erases any white or grey ones that lie within its path. Ultimately, additional Grey and Red Agents were added to the simulation to allow for a greater degree of documentation and erasure. After a certain point however, the act of erasure itself becomes an act of recording. Recording due to the fact that if left to their own devices, the Grey and White Agents would generate a complete grid within the field. The Erasure components allow for the Grid never to complete itself. If permitted to continue, it would be in a perpetual state of flux, ceaselessly generating while simultaneously consuming a grid in an indeterminate manner.

Initial White Agent.





Addition of the Grey Agent.

Addition of the Red Erasure Agent. Multiple Grey Recording and Red Erasing Agents - In Perpetual Flux.

