Visitors control the preferences of the individual turtles, then observe how the overall group patterns change. On two stations, visitors select and change rules of behavior for three species of virtual creatures, then observe the resulting patterns. Each creature can react to other creatures in its world and also to the motion of the visitor's finger on the screen. Visitors decide how each creature should respond. For each new set of rules, new patterns emerge.
Visitors can also erase all the rules and create their own.
The text guides visitors through a series of simulations in which visitors select simple behavior rules and observe the patterns that result. This station is for visitors interested in greater depth and complexity than what is offered at the other stations. You can explore this Diving Deeper station yourself right now. Just click on Exploring Emergence .