A simple agent-based model on a toroidal grid

To run the model, just clone and run python3 foraging/model_viz.py

Plants are fixed, and reproduce asexually by making offshoots. Every turn they grow until they are fully grown and eatable by rabbits

For a plant to reproduc :

• An cutting must fall on the ground in the neighbourhood of the plant with a fixed probability (r)
• The cutting will then have a lower chance of survival if there is already one plant or more growing nearby
• The cutting must be place in appropriate conditions (currently : not in water it's a land plant)

Every turn, rabbits must :

• Move one case
• Eat a carrot

Moving one case is pretty straightforward : they just move randomly Rabbits must eat a carrot every turn :

• If a rabbit hasn't been eating carrots for five turns, they die
• If a rabbit is on the same case as a fully grown plant, they can gain a carrot
• If a rabbit has more than a fixed number of carrot, they can give the carrot to a rabbit on the same case
• Rabbit can accumulate carrots and keep the carrots with them Every turn, rabbits can also reproduce :
• If they are on the same case as another rabbit of the opposite sex, they can create a new rabbit with a fixed probability

Every turn Foxes must :

• Move
• Eat a rabbit

They are mostly similars to rabbit with a few differences :

• They are less likely to reproduce in any given encounter with an opposite sex fox
• They can't accumulate rabbits the way rabbits accumulate carrots
• Nevertheless, they can spend more turn without eating, and starve much less frequently

The interface should look like that :

With the right parameters, populations should start stabilizing :

• Move rabbits feeding to new method
• Add carrot ressources on the map
• Datacollector at agent level
• Make rabbits find plants
• Add reproduction
  • Sexual for rabbits
  • shoots for plants
• move cellmates in step function
• Add foxes
• add cuttings
• add plants dispersion
• add stop condition if species get extinct
• add vizualisations
• Comment
• Readme
• Remove useless libs
• Removes prints, add logger -> check first if agents moved to different files
• Grid size in viz
• terrain relief
• viz terrain relief : portrayal["r"] = altitude in model_viz
• Effect of terrain on plants reproduction
• Effect of terrain on animal movements
• Kill all organism initialized in water at the beginning of the simulation
• Add other terrain conditions for plants