Virtual Anthropoids:
an agent-based model
In this page you can find the translation into C++ programming language of the model that I presented in my doctorate thesis. In this new version, instead of swarm library, I use GNU Scientific Library to generate random numbers and GTKMM to build the graphical user interface. The new version is about two times faster than the old one, and might be compiled under Linux, Windows, McOS X, and other platforms. Below is the source code and binaries for Linux and Windows:
| Target | File | md5sum |
| Source code | anthropoids-080601.tar.gz | 1e878bd2137abe945a91cb404caa65f4 |
| Linux: Ubuntu 8.04 i386 | anthropoids_080601-1_i386.deb | 8a4b6d949313a43b8c1c10776417cf60 |
| Linux: Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 | anthropoids_080601-1_amd64.deb | 53cb1d73759af5d45ba836e4b20dbe33 |
| Windows | anthropoids-080601.rar | f110f71340b958d4345e5edff5bd570d |
| Source code of Debian package | anthropoids-080601.tar | 56a2e538eb052dab3dc2fa57d109860d |
Running
- To run the software, do the following, according to your operating system:
- Debian or Ubuntu Linux with the .deb package installed: click on
Applications / Games / Anthropoids.
- Linux (other distributions). Download the .tar.gz package,
compile and run the program through a command line terminal.
- Windows. Download the .rar package, extract the files and double
click on the anthropoids.bat file.
- Debian or Ubuntu Linux with the .deb package installed: click on
Applications / Games / Anthropoids.
- In the graphical representation of the world the three different tree
species are represented by squares with different shades of green. If a tree
has fruits, it is filled with yellow color; otherwise it is filled with green
color.
Cells with terrestrial herbaceous vegetation are uniformly painted with a color between gold and green.
- Right clicking anywhere in the world, you can alternate between two
different representations of the world. (1) In demographic density mode, cells
with just one anthropoid are represented by the white color, and more
populated cells have a color closer to dark blue. (2) In sex ratio mode, cells
containing only males are blue, cells containing only females are red, and
cells with males and females have different shades of purple, corresponding to
different sex ratios.
In the two visions of the world above, the four black dots are preys.
- While running anthropoids, you can click on one cell with agents
to open a list of the cell occupants.
Then, you can double click on one agent in the list to follow it. The squares drawn with yellow lines represent the agent's NearView, AllianceRadius, and MaxVision. The agent will be linked by colored lines to all other agents that it remembers. Blue lines indicate positive remembrances, red lines represent negative remembrances, and white lines mean neutral remembrances. All events memorized by the agent are printed in the terminal.
- It is possible to increase or decrease the zoom of the world
representation by using the mouse wheel.
Last updated: July/2008