Figure 1:SHAPEBUGS recuperating from a deformation.
Figure 1:SHAPEBUGS recuperating from a deformation.
For this problem set you will implement a the SHAPEBUGS algorithm as described in
Specifically, your program will implement the SHAPEBUGS algorithm as described in the "SHAPEBUGS Algorithm" section. Note that this algorithm assumes that the agents do not know their X and Y coordinates. You need to do the same. That is, the turtles cannot read their xcor and ycor values (that would be cheating), instead they should use the local trilateration process as described in the paper to estimate their coordinates.
Your agents will conform to a lattice shape as shown in Figure 1 (which is Figure 10 from the paper). Your interface will have one scrolling button to choose the number of agents and a "Shake" button where a randomly chosen large region of agents is displaced some distance. The "Shake" button reproduces their self-repair experiments.
You do not need to implement any of the other shapes they tested or extend their algorithm in any way. You might want to consider using NetLogo's Plots to reproduce some of the graphs in the paper (like, Figure 5), but that is not a requirement.
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