AntPheromones2 Assignment

Try these challenges to exercise your programming skills, all based on the AntPheromones2 program:

0. Print the averageBugNbor1Count and averageBugNbor2Count

   in the report file each time step.

1. Calculate the average distance to pSource for agents with

   different randomMoveProbablities.  For instance, one quick method:
   Calculate the averages for agents in each quartile of
   randomMoveProbability.  Print these values out each step in the
   report file.

2. Create and use a Comparator to sort the bugs on some other

   feature, e.g., the amount of pheromone at the site they occupy.

3. Devise another measure (or more than one!) of the extent

   of clustering.  Calculate it each step, write to the report file.

4. Define two types of bugs:

    type0: move as before, to pheromone
    type1: move to lower pheromone!
   fractionType0 parameter specifies what fraction of the
   bugs are type 0 (and therefore how many are type1, too).

5. Define a bug happiness: e.g., pheromone where it is.

   Have each bug calculate some kind of running average
   of its recent happiness, e.g., averaged over the last
   10 time steps.
   Then average that over all bugs, and write the the report file.

X. Optional:

   Define a custom slider for probRandMoveMean.
   When it is changed, re-assign probRandMove to all bugs,
   using the distribution defined by that new mean.

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AntPheromones2Assignment

AntPheromones2 Assignment