Jumping kangaroos

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Miguel Pais (Author)

WHAT IS IT?

A model of kangaroos jumping across a beautiful landscape.

It shows how NetLogo picks turtles in a random order each time to execute commands.

CREDITS AND REFERENCES

Made just to share a kangaroo shape I created with a colleague from the Complexity Explorer ABM course.

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;----------------------------------------------------------------------
;The KANGAROO MODEL
;
;By Miguel Pessanha Pais
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breed[kangaroos kangaroo]

to setup
  ca
  set-default-shape kangaroos "kangaroo"
  create-kangaroos 5 [
    set color brown
    set size 3
    set heading 270
  ]
  (foreach [0 1 2 3 4] [-10 -5 0 5 10] [
    ask kangaroo ?1 [set xcor ?2]
  ])

  ;create grass
  ask patches with [pycor < 0] [
   set pcolor 53
  ]
  ;create sky
  ask patches with [pycor >= 0] [
   set pcolor 87
  ]
  ;create sun
  ask patch -12 13 [
   set pcolor yellow
   ask patches in-radius 3 [
    set pcolor yellow
   ]
  ]

  reset-ticks
end 

to go
  ask kangaroos [do-what-kangaroos-do]
  tick
end 

to do-what-kangaroos-do
  set heading 290
  repeat 10 [
    fd 0.3
    display
  ]
  set heading 270
  repeat 3 [
    fd 0.3
    display
  ]
  set heading 250
  repeat 10 [
    fd 0.3
    display
  ]
  set heading 270
  fd 0.3
  display
end

There is only one version of this model, created almost 9 years ago by Miguel Pais.

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File	Type	Description	Last updated
Jumping kangaroos.png	preview	Preview for 'Jumping kangaroos'	almost 9 years ago, by Miguel Pais	Download

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