Line of Sight Example

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Uri_dolphin3 Uri Wilensky (Author)

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Tagged by Reuven M. Lerner about 11 years ago

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breed [walkers walker]
breed [markers marker]
patches-own [elevation]

to setup
  clear-all
  set-default-shape markers "dot"
  ;; setup the terrain
  ask patches [ set elevation random 10000 ]
  repeat 2 [ diffuse elevation 1 ]
  ask patches [ set pcolor scale-color green elevation 1000 9000 ]

  create-walkers 6 [
    set size 1.5
    setxy random-xcor random-ycor
    set color item who [orange blue magenta violet brown yellow]
    mark-line-of-sight
  ]
  reset-ticks
end 

to go
  ;; get rid of all the old markers
  ask markers [ die ]
  ;; move the walkers
  ask walkers [
    rt random 10
    lt random 10
    fd 1
    mark-line-of-sight
  ]
  tick
end 

to mark-line-of-sight  ;; walker procedure
  let dist 1
  let a1 0
  let c color
  let last-patch patch-here
  ;; iterate through all the patches
  ;; starting at the patch directly ahead
  ;; going through MAXIMUM-VISIBILITY
  while [dist <= maximum-visibility] [
    let p patch-ahead dist
    ;; if we are looking diagonally across
    ;; a patch it is possible we'll get the
    ;; same patch for distance x and x + 1
    ;; but we don't need to check again.
    if p != last-patch [
      ;; find the angle between the turtle's position
      ;; and the top of the patch.
      let a2 atan dist (elevation - [elevation] of p)
      ;; if that angle is less than the angle toward the
      ;; last visible patch there is no direct line from the turtle
      ;; to the patch in question that is not obstructed by another
      ;; patch.
      if a1 < a2
        [ ask p [ sprout-markers 1 [ set color c ] ]
          set a1 a2 ]
      set last-patch p
    ]
    set dist dist + 1
  ]
end 


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