[FRIAM] Do you know? Do 'swarms' follow random walks?

[James Steiner]

On 9/6/06, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:
> Has anyone checked to see if any alife 'swarms' display accumulative
> variance?
>
> If you were to design one to do that, would it have a structure
> comparable to populations of organisms living in ecologies?

One of my models, "chain-of-fools" is a swarm where the members simply
try to follow each other--rather, each follows one specific other, in
a chain. But with some settings, the group does some interesting
things, including random-walk like movement. I think some of it has to
do with rounding errors in the math, but it's still interesing.

http://www.turtlezero.com/models/models.php?model=chain-of-fools

If it weren't for the boundaries of the screen, the chain would travel
all over. Would this count?

~~James
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