Artificial Culture: Exploring Human Complex Worlds

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PARTICIPANTS
and their
COURSE PROJECTS

ARTIFICIAL CULTURE
Exploring Human Complex Worlds
Anthropology 137 - Lecture 4
Theory and Methods - 4 Units
Spring 2004

TAKE THIS COURSE NEXT WINTER

(Take it for the first time, or repeat it
and work on a special project)

All these programs should run on any PC. If files in addition to the executable (*.exe) are listed, those other files must be saved on your PC before you attempt to open the executable. You may also have to save the executable in the same folder as the other files and open it from there. The course projects provided a chance to explore alternative ways of representing populations of agents and their complex interactions in both space and time...

BRIAN PIERSON
An ecological simulation of hunter, antelope and grass agents. An image of a hunter or an antelope is displayed as the population balance shifts.

Save all these files to the same folder before double clicking the executable:

antelope.jpg

hunter.jpg

brian.exe

CATHY LEE
Conway's Game of Life altered to exhibit different patterns of aggregation.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

cathy.exe

CHRISTINE SUPERALES
Aggregation of two agent types in a spatial simulation.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

christine.exe

COREY JACKSON
Traffic Flow and Regulation (see "John Simon" in the Index).

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

corey.exe

DAVID VUONG
With Kare'l, the use of a bitmap image to import seasonal differences in resource distribution. You must import Spring and Winter and click "BMP to Array" to begin. THen select either of those two resources and select "Maximum Food" for a move.

Save all these files to the same folder before double clicking the executable:

dk-spring.bmp

dk-summer.bmp

david-karel.exe

ERIC ANDERSON
Using a bitmap to import geographic data which the agents are aware of.

Save all these files to the same folder before double clicking the executable:

eric.bmp

eric.exe

GARRETT BEATY
An improvement on Planet Wator, a predator / prey model.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

garrett.exe

IRENE BASA
Using sonification as well as visualization to represent agent interaction.

Save all these files to the same folder before double clicking the executable:

hightom05-10-00_2.wav

light01.wav

irene.exe

JONATHAN STONE
A spatial simulation in which agents grow in size according to their chance encounters with a "bully" agent.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

jonathan.exe

JOSH SEFFEL
Gatherers Foraging from a base camp return when they have acquired food. There is a surprise at the end.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

josh.exe

KARE'L LOKENI
With Dave, the use of a bitmap image to import seasonal differences in resource distribution. You must import Spring and Winter and click "BMP to Array" to begin. THen select either of those two resources and select "Maximum Food" for a move.

Save all these files to the same folder before double clicking the executable:

dk-spring.bmp

dk-summer.bmp

david-karel.exe

KRISTIN WHEEL
With Rachel. Interactive Prisoners Dilemma with improvements to select either global or local knowledge, to order agents by score and slow the pace.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

kristin-rachel.exe

MEGAN BERRU
Some dynamics of the genetics of Sickle Cell Anemia in Malarial environments.

You may open this application directly without saving it first:

megan.exe

RACHEL RUBIN
With Kristin. Interactive Prisoners Dilemma with improvements to select either global or local knowledge, to order agents by score and slow the pace.