tug-of-war

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John Phelps (Author)

WHAT IS IT?

This Model explores the ancient game of Tug Of War

It doesn't 'Go' yet but, looks cool.

HOW IT WORKS

The Tuggers are assigned to two teams the Skins and the Shirts then they are assigned a red or blue color and start out on the left or right of the field

HOW TO USE IT

You can change the count of team-members and strength of each to see how it will do

THINGS TO NOTICE

Each team is given a amount of energy to begin with which is used up during the game. You can't tug on a rope forever right?

THINGS TO TRY

Try exploring how each agent uses his energy. Short strong pulls or long term low strength pulling? How do you husband your resources when playing tug-of-war?

EXTENDING THE MODEL

Lots of ideas to extend the model - could there be team strategies emerging? How about synchronized tugging? Could there be a competative advantage to having a coxswain like in Scull Rowing teams? How about GA to develop team building and coordination.

NETLOGO FEATURES

Breeds to differentiate the players. Shape editor to create 'left-tuggers' and 'right-tuggers' Nice visualization of team member strengt and rope

RELATED MODELS

Maybe kinda similar to the Bar problem since the population is split into two, winners and losers.

CREDITS AND REFERENCES

I came up with this idea all by myself and started coding by looking at the reference page.

Comments and Questions

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breed [ skins skin ]
breed [ shirts shirt ]

to setup
  clear-all
  create-skins skins-team [
    set shape "left-tugger"
    set color red
    set size skins-strength
    setxy  ( random  ( min-pxcor + 2 ) - 2 ) 0
  ]
  create-shirts shirts-team [
    set shape "right-tugger"
    set color blue
    set size shirts-strength
    setxy ( random ( max-pxcor - 2 ) + 2 ) 0
  ]
  draw-rope
  reset-ticks
end 

to draw-rope
  ask skins [ create-link-to one-of shirts ]
  ask shirts [ create-link-to one-of skins ]
  ask links [ set color white ]
end 

to go
end

There are 2 versions of this model.

		Uploaded by	When	Description	Download
		John Phelps	about 8 years ago	Info doesn't show up on web page	Download this version
		John Phelps	about 8 years ago	Initial upload	Download this version

Attached files

File	Type	Description	Last updated
tug-of-war.png	preview	Preview for 'tug-of-war'	about 8 years ago, by John Phelps	Download

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