Partners Example

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Uri_dolphin3 Uri Wilensky (Author)

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turtles-own
[
  partner   ;;  the turtle that is our partner, or "nobody" if we don't have one
]

;;  This procedure will setup 150 turtles, by randomly placing them around the world.

to setup
  clear-all
  create-turtles 150
  [
    ;;  turtles get random coordinates, and they are
    ;;  light gray (to show they don't have partners yet).
    setxy random-xcor random-ycor
    set color gray + 2
    set partner nobody
  ]
  reset-ticks
end 

;; have each turtle move until they find a partner at which point they turn red

to find-partners
  let singles turtles with [partner = nobody]
  if not any? singles [ stop ]

  ;;  In this example, only turtles that haven't found a partner can move around.
  ask singles
  [
    ;;  Randomly move about the world
    lt random 40
    rt random 40
    fd 1
  ]

  ;;  Now that all unpartnered turtles have moved, ask the unpartnered turtles to check if they
  ;;  are on a patch with a turtle that also don't have a partner.
  ask turtles
  [
    if (partner = nobody) and (any? other turtles-here with [partner = nobody])
    [
      ;;  There could be more than one partner to choose from, so we use one-of
      ;;  to randomly choose one of the turtle without a partner
      set partner one-of other turtles-here with [partner = nobody]

      ;;  We graphically show that we have a partner by turning red.
      set color red

      ask partner [
        ;; Ask our partner to partner with ourselves.
        set partner myself
        ;;  Color my partner red too
        set color red
      ]
    ]
  ]

  ;;  As a check on the correctness of the code, let's make sure that
  ;;  the partner assignments are consistent.
  if any? turtles with [partner != nobody and [partner] of partner != self]
  [
    ask one-of turtles with [[partner] of partner != self]
    [
      user-message (word "Oops! Partner mismatch: " self
                         " is not partnered to " myself)
    ]
    stop
  ]
  tick
end 


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