MIHS Mathi&Bella Period 3
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breed [fishes fish] turtles-own [ flockmates ;; agentset of nearby turtles nearest-neighbor ;; closest one of our flockmates ] to setup clear-all create-turtles population [ set shape "fish" set color 25 set size 1.5 ;; easier to see setxy random-xcor random-ycor set flockmates no-turtles ] ask patches [ set pcolor 105 ] reset-ticks end to go ask turtles [ flock ] ;; the following line is used to make the turtles ;; animate more smoothly. repeat 5 [ ask turtles [ fd 0.2 ] display ] ;; for greater efficiency, at the expense of smooth ;; animation, substitute the following line instead: ;; ask turtles [ fd 1 ] tick end to flock ;; turtle procedure find-flockmates if any? flockmates [ find-nearest-neighbor ifelse distance nearest-neighbor < minimum-separation [ separate ] [ align cohere ] ] end to find-flockmates ;; turtle procedure set flockmates other turtles in-radius vision end to find-nearest-neighbor ;; turtle procedure set nearest-neighbor min-one-of flockmates [distance myself] end ;;; SEPARATE to separate ;; turtle procedure turn-away ([heading] of nearest-neighbor) max-separate-turn end ;;; ALIGN to align ;; turtle procedure turn-towards average-flockmate-heading max-align-turn end to-report average-flockmate-heading ;; turtle procedure ;; We can't just average the heading variables here. ;; For example, the average of 1 and 359 should be 0, ;; not 180. So we have to use trigonometry. let x-component sum [dx] of flockmates let y-component sum [dy] of flockmates ifelse x-component = 0 and y-component = 0 [ report heading ] [ report atan x-component y-component ] end ;;; COHERE to cohere ;; turtle procedure turn-towards average-heading-towards-flockmates max-cohere-turn end to-report average-heading-towards-flockmates ;; turtle procedure ;; "towards myself" gives us the heading from the other turtle ;; to me, but we want the heading from me to the other turtle, ;; so we add 180 let x-component mean [sin (towards myself + 180)] of flockmates let y-component mean [cos (towards myself + 180)] of flockmates ifelse x-component = 0 and y-component = 0 [ report heading ] [ report atan x-component y-component ] end ;;; HELPER PROCEDURES to turn-towards [new-heading max-turn] ;; turtle procedure turn-at-most (subtract-headings new-heading heading) max-turn end to turn-away [new-heading max-turn] ;; turtle procedure turn-at-most (subtract-headings heading new-heading) max-turn end ;; turn right by "turn" degrees (or left if "turn" is negative), ;; but never turn more than "max-turn" degrees to turn-at-most [turn max-turn] ;; turtle procedure ifelse abs turn > max-turn [ ifelse turn > 0 [ rt max-turn ] [ lt max-turn ] ] [ rt turn ] end
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