Re: Heatbug/Swarm style questions...

[Ted C Belding]

addHeatbug is a message for HeatbugModelSwarm, not 
Heatbug.  It's only a kludge for probe demos as I understand it, not 
for simulating heatbug reproduction.
-Ted

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Ted Belding                      <mailto:address@hidden> 
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> All,
> First the straight-forward heatbug questions:
> Why is findExtremeType needed?
> What is the enumerated types "hot" and "cold" used for?
> When actually running heatbugs, what is the "window" called
> HeatbugObserverSwarm (with DisplayFrequency:  1
> and a button called graphBug: on it) used for?  You can change the
> values and hitting the button, just causes the computer to beep...
> 
> Now I started "attempting" to change the code today, and wanted to add a
> way for happy bugs to reproduce, so at the end of step in heatbug.m I
> added"
> if (unhappiness < 0.05) {
> [Heatbug addHeatbug];
> }
> And then I tried may other attempts too numerated to list here.  None of
> these worked...where should I have put that?  I was thinking that maybe
> it needed to be put in heatbugModelSwarm in the buildActions method, but
> I'm not sure.
> 
> And to ask a future question...I plan to create another window showing
> each bugs unhappiness level as a color maybe Blue sortof like the
> heatmap, but I plan to create it as a Discrete2d type instead of
> Diffused2d type like the heatspace...Do you think I need to create a new
> space "happyspace" modeled after "heatspace"?  Or is there another
> better way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad.
> 
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