7.2. Simulation and visualization

CAs may be of only limited interest to us visually. The real purpose of your experiments so far has been to drum in the agent-oriented approach, and the ways you can study the patterns that objects unwittingly create. CAs, for all their nerdy amusement value, may be only the simplest of possible systems you can visualize this way.

The coding part of this chapter is finished now, but there is plenty of scope to develop these approaches in more meaningful directions. For the remaining pages of this chapter, we’ll discuss a few ideas.