Re: Do loops
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- Subject: [mg3991] Re: Do loops
- From: gaylord at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (richard j. gaylord)
- Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 02:12:59 -0400
- Organization: university of illinois
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In article <4ms4ok$58v at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, g.kokkoris at ic.ac.uk (Giorgos Kokkoris) wrote: > Dear fellows, > I am having a problem in trying to simulate biological invasions using > Lotka-Volterra dynamics. you might be interested in looking at the most recent issue of Mathematica in Education and Research [issue # 5.1] which is due out any day now. it contains a cellular automaton simulation of predator-prey ecosystems. the advantage of performing a discrete computer simulation rather than using the lotka-volterra coupled differential equations is, according to dewdney these equations "assume ... a continuous predator continuously in search of a continuous prey". [this quote is from "Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor". Scientific American, 251(12), 1984. pp.14 - 22]. note: - a number of biological phenomena [predator-prey, prisoner's dilemma, contagion, chemotaxis, ant colony activity] are modeled with cellular automata simulations in the soon-to-be-published book: "Modeling Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica" by Richard J. Gaylord and Kazume Nishidate. TELOS/Springer-Verlag. July 1996. -richard- btw - as my signature below indicates, there is not a single Do loop in this book. that would be just too ugly [not to mention slow]. -- "if you're not programming functionally, then you're programming dysfunctionally" ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====