Sugarscape

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Sugarscape

• 4th Quarter
• By Patrick Coleman

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Purpose

• Axtell and Epstein's Growing Artificial
  Societies
• Graphs of simulation
• Schelling's Micromotives and Macrobehavior
• Social Science

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Project

• Follows rules of environment and segregation
• Graph population and wealth
• GUI representation of environment
• Seasonal migration winters

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Third Quarter Version
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Third Quarter Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Final Version
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Results

• Segregation strong effect
• Winters devastating
• Wealth distribution unrealistic

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Future Research

• Combat between agents
• Trade of spice
• Sexual reproduction with inheritance