Turtles and Zombies

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Tagged by Pablo Gonzalez de Prado about 7 years ago

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globals [deaths maxRadius]
turtles-own [energy]
patches-own [friction isWater]
breed [tortoises tortoise]
breed [zombies zombie]

to clear
  clear-all
  ask patches [ set pcolor green - ( random-float 0.8 )]
  reset-ticks
end 

to setup
  clear
  ;; maxRadius is used in smartMovement
  set maxRadius 5
  set-patch-size 13
  setup-patches
  set deaths 0
  ;; make this "5" a controllable variable
  repeat 5 [ setup2-patches ]
  repeat 5 [ smoothWater ]
  setup-turtles
  reset-ticks
  stop
end 

;; Creates some grass and a bit of water

to setup-patches
  ask patches [
    set isWater false
    ifelse random-float 100 < newLakeChance
      [ intoWater ]
      [ set pcolor green - ( random-float 0.8 ) ]
  ]
end 

;; Grows water areas (this method is iterated)

to setup2-patches
  ask patches [
    ;; Only neighbours of water can turn into water
    ;; That's why setup-patches creates some water seeds!
    if isWater = true [
      ask neighbors [
        ;; If a neighbour is grass, attempts conversion
        if isWater = false [
          ;; Patches with more water neighbours will be visited more ofte, so
          ;; they have a higher chance of becoming water!

          ;; Important detail: the order in which patches are visited
          ;; will introduce a bias (if we visit from left to right, there is a
          ;; chance that the neighbour with xcoord + 1 will become water, and
          ;; when this is visited it may also turn xcoord + 2 into water, but
          ;; the same is not true to the left). Unimportant for this toy program.
          ;; A solution would be to create a second label that stores the old
          ;; isWater status and only update this when the iteration is finished (for example)
          if random 100 < lakeGrowth [
            intoWater
          ]
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ]
  tick
end 

;; Water growth produces some unpleasant structures. Here water edges are smoothed.

to smoothWater
  ask patches [
    ;; Only turns grass into water!
    if isWater = false [
      ;; Counts the number of neighbours that are water
      let waterNeighbours 0
      ask neighbors [
        if isWater = true [
          set waterNeighbours waterNeighbours + 1
        ]
      ]
      ;; We want a path with 4 neighbours to be much more likely to become water than
      ;; one with 2. We multiply to get squares, so 2 neighbours gets 4 "chances"
      ;; and 4 neighbours get 16 "chances".
      set waterNeighbours waterNeighbours * waterNeighbours
      ;; We get the random number up to 65 so there is a very small chance of
      ;; finding super small islands (max neighbours squared is 64)
      if random 65 < waterNeighbours [
        intoWater
      ]
    ]
  ]
end 

to intoWater
  set pcolor 105 - (random-float 0.4 ) set friction 1 set isWater true
end 

to setup-turtles
  ask turtles [ die ]
  create-turtles numberTurtles
  ;; tortoises is an old, confusing class name refering to turtles that are alive
  ;; the other turtle sub-class is "zombies"
  ask turtles [ set breed tortoises set energy starvationEnergy ]
  ask tortoises [ set shape "turtle" setxy random-xcor random-ycor set color 15 ]
end 

to go
  if count turtles = 0 [ stop ]
  ask tortoises [ move-tortoises tortoises-eat reproduce ]
  ask zombies [ move-zombies eat-tortoise ]
  death
  grow
  tick
  do-plots
end 

to move-tortoises
  ifelse smartMovement = false
    [ normalTortoiseMove ]
    ;; else: smart movement (away from monsters)
    [
      ;; smart movement only if enemies are present!
      ;; commented code for avoiding other turtles
      ;;let turtlesInRange 0
      ;;ask tortoises in-Radius maxRadius [
      ;;  set turtlesInRange ( turtlesInRange + 1 )
      ;;]

      ;;ifelse turtlesInRange > 1
      ifelse any? zombies in-Radius maxRadius
        [
          set heading awayDirection
          forward random 2 * (2 - friction) / 2
        ]
        ;; else: normal movement!
        [ normalTortoiseMove ]
    ]
end 

to normalTortoiseMove
  right random lessStraightMovement - ( lessStraightMovement / 2 ) forward random 2 * (2 - friction) / 2
end 

;; finds the direction away from most nearby monsters

to-report awayDirection
  let callingTurtle self
  ;; let's try to run away from the weighted center of mass of enemies!
  let awayX 0
  let awayY 0
  ;;ask turtles in-radius maxRadius [
  ask zombies in-radius maxRadius [
    let localX 0
    let localY 0
    ;; for every neighbour gets the local x and y distance
    set localX ( xcor - ( [xcor] of callingTurtle ) )
    set localY ( ycor - ( [ycor] of callingTurtle ) )

    ;; corrects border effects
    set localX ( fixDistBorder localX max-pxcor )
    set localY ( fixDistBorder localY max-pycor )

    ;; the closer the monster is, the larger the weight for the total
    let dist ( maxRadius - distance callingturtle )
    ;; adds the weighted contribution to the total
    set awayX ( awayX + ( localX * dist ) )
    set awayY ( awayY + ( localY * dist ) )
  ]

  ;; We don't need to divide by the total weight, since this only
  ;; rescales the (awayX, awayY) vector. Note that any
  ;; k·(a, b) defines the same direction as (a, b)!

  ;; Invert the values to head AWAY from the monsters!
  set awayX ( - awayX )
  set awayY ( - awayY )

  ;; finally converts these local coordinates into an angle!
  let awayAngle 0
  ifelse ( awayX != 0 or awayY != 0 )
    [ set awayAngle ( atan awayX awayY ) ]
    ;; else: undefined angle!
    [ set awayAngle random 360 ]

  report awayAngle
end 

;; checks if the x/y distance to the neighbour is too big
;; which means we have to correct a jump over the edges
;; (so from -max to +max we get distance 1)

to-report fixDistBorder [ increment maxCoord ]
  let minJump ( maxCoord * 2 ) - maxRadius
  let twoTimesOne ( maxCoord * 2 ) + 1

  ifelse abs increment > minJump
    [
      if increment > 0 [
        report ( - twoTimesOne + increment )
      ]
      if increment < 0 [
        report ( twoTimesOne + increment )
      ]
    ]
    ;; no changes
    [ report increment ]
end 

to move-zombies
  ifelse  smartMovementZ = false
    [ normalZombiMove ]
    ;; else: smart movement (away from monsters)
    [
      ifelse any? tortoises in-Radius maxRadius
        [
          let target ( one-of tortoises in-Radius maxRadius )
          ;; if target is in the same spot (should not happen) this creates an exception
          ifelse distance target > 0
            [
              set heading towards target
              forward random 2 * (2 - friction) / 2
            ]
            [ normalZombiMove ]
        ]
        [ normalZombiMove ]
    ]

  ;; Zombies die in water!
  ;;ifelse isWater = true
  ;;  [ die ]
  ;;  [ set energy (energy - moveEnergyConsumption) ]
  ;; better and faster: water simply takes more energy from them
  ;; otherwise large amounts of turtles gather in the water
  ;; remember: friction is 1 in water, 0 otherwise
  set energy (energy - ( friction + 1 ) * moveEnergyConsumption)
end 

to normalZombiMove
  right random lessStraightMovementZ - ( lessStraightMovementZ / 2 ) forward random 2 * (2 - friction) / 2
end 

to tortoises-eat
  ;; turtles in water gain a bit of energy, otherwise they spend some moving
  ifelse isWater = true
    [ set energy (energy + 1) ]
    ;; no water. first takes the movement penalty
    [
      set energy (energy - moveEnergyConsumption)

      ;; if there is grass they also eat
      if pcolor < 101 [
        if pcolor > 0 [
          set pcolor black set energy (energy + foodEfficiency) ;;set color (color + 10)
        ]
      ]
    ]
end 

to reproduce
  if energy > energyToReproduce [
    set energy (energy - (energyToReproduce / 2) )
    hatch 1 [ set energy (energyToReproduce / 2) ]
  ]
end 

to death
  ask turtles [
    ;; if energy falls below a threshold turtles die.
    if energy < starvationEnergy [
      set deaths (deaths + 1)
      ifelse random-float 100 < chanceToZombiAtDeath
        [ set breed zombies set shape "monster" set color 45 ]
        [ die ]
    ]
  ]
end 

to grow
  ask patches [
    if pcolor = 0 [
      if random 100 < 1 [
        set pcolor 75 - (random-float 0.8 )
      ]
    ]
  ]
end 

to eat-tortoise
  if any? tortoises in-radius 3 [
    ifelse any? tortoises in-radius 3 with [ energy <= 31 ]
      [ set energy (energy + 21)
        ask one-of tortoises in-radius 3 with [ energy <= 31 ] [ die ]
      ]
      ;; else
      [ set energy (energy + 10)
        ask one-of tortoises in-radius 3 [
          set energy (energy - 10)
          if random-float 100 < chanceInfect [
            set breed zombies
            set shape "monster"
            set color 125
          ]
        ]
      ]
  ]
end 

to do-plots
  set-current-plot "totals"
  set-current-plot-pen "tortoises"
  plot count tortoises
  ;;set-current-plot-pen "grass"
  ;;plot count patches with [pcolor > 0] / 10
  ;;set-current-plot-pen "deaths"
  ;;plot (deaths * 10) / ticks
  set-current-plot-pen "zombies"
  plot count zombies
end 

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