Populations
By: Violet Whitney
Tags: Simulation, Agent Based Modeling, Geospatial, Cybernetics

(individual or group project)

Create a “Complex” Simulation with Modern Behavior

You may choose to create a few interacting agents, or a whole population. Think about the different parts of your agent based model and what the behaviors are. What are the global input and output parameters you are trying to measure? Are these inputs and outputs visualized somehow? In a GUI? What other important elements should be visualized or counted in the model? Start with a few simple rules to build your simulation in Unity.

Modules:

Use both of the tutorials to employ these skills/tools in your simulation.

Post:

Post your simulation to the course website by midnight Sep 24, 2019 with the following:

A Catchy Title + Authors Name

A succinct description of what your simulation is and why it’s important/interesting

of what your simulation is and why it’s important/interesting The Simulation — Visual documentation of the simulation running (videos, gifs, images) from the simulation you’ve made in Unity.

— Visual documentation of the simulation running (videos, gifs, images) from the simulation you’ve made in Unity. How it works — Simple sketches or diagrams of how your simulation works. You may choose to document each portion of the agent based model (agents, environment, behavior, parameters , global inputs and outputs)

— Simple sketches or diagrams of how your simulation works. You may choose to document each portion of the agent based model (agents, environment, behavior, parameters , global inputs and outputs) Code Snippets — which are well commented and documented demonstrating how it was made. To do so post your code in a code block like this (use 3 back tics `` ` )

//this is a code block where code goes

Example Modern Behaviors:

Pedestrian movement of pedestrians looking at phones vs not while walking along a sidewalk

of pedestrians looking at phones vs not while walking along a sidewalk Shared garden between many neighbors

between many neighbors population size for competing species in an urban environment

for competing species in an urban environment spread of forest fires with changing climate parameters

How to Post to Medium

1 Go to Medium and sign up for an account (its free).

2 Click your profile image at the top right of the page and select “New Story”.

3 Change the title and write your story. Use the + icon to add in videos links and images.

4 When you’re ready to publish, click the green “Publish” dropdown at the top of the page. Type in the tag “Research” and then hit “Publish”. This tag is important as it will ensure that your post is submitted to correct page. Your story is NOT yet submitted to the publication.

5 Add the story to the publication [full instructions here]. Click the “…” button in the top-right corner of the page. Select Add to publication from the dropdown list. Choose the “Data Mining the City” publication you intend to submit to and click Save. If you are a writer for the publication, then your story will be immediately submitted to the publication editors for review. The editors of that publication will have a chance to review your draft. Readers will not see your story in the publication until it is reviewed and added to the publication.

Recording Gifs

There’s a number of ways to record a gif from your screen.

If you have a Mac:

use Giphy Capture OR

use Quicktime screencapture (keep it shorter than 10 seconds and a small portion of your screen)

Trim the video in Quicktime to make it a smaller file

turn the video into a gif using ezgif (you can also use Photoshop, but I feel this usually take too much time)

If you have Windows: