UCSC, Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program
DANM 220: Computer Programming for the Arts, Winter 2008
Professor: Ralph Abraham, Ph.D. Math

Student: G. Craig Hobbs || Craig's DANM Homepage||

Week 4, Thursday, 01.31.08 - Spruce up your NetLogo model from the final assignment of Workshop #1 with sound, monitors, plots, instructions for the "Information" tab page, and full comments on the procedures page. Post on your website as a *.nlogo file (not as an applet). My test monitor file test.nls is located here. I also posted an applet version without sound and without monitors here for your viewing pleasure. Due Monday, 4 February by 5pm

created with NetLogo

view/download model file: turtle-god-mod.nlogo

Title
The Turtle God of Monotheism

Ontology
The universe is a setup, a population of turtles and one God created in a moment of fanfare. The turtles and God migrate, influencing each other when they cross paths.

The nature of being
God changes color based on the influence of his subjects. His subjects influence each other and change the nature of God. However, God's influence over his subjects - although appearing greater by God's size - is no more or less than any other turtle as god is just another turtle in terms of influence. Eventually, after multiple exchanges of influence and color, God's color will be that of the dominate species, influenced as much by the nature of God as by the nature of the dominant species whom, in the end, determine God.

Programming monotheism
Set the number of turtles using the NUMBER slider.
Set the number of COLORS - beween 2 and 10 - using the COLORS slider.
SETUP initializes the model.
GO runs the model.

Species Dominance plot
The Species Dominance plot shows the percentage of turtles sharing the most common color. Notice how God influences dominance (if at all).

If all else fails
Enjoy being God!