Owen Densmore |
Sun Microsystems |
Each part has an associated email survey/questionnaire among the students and faculty on the given topic.
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The first program modeled masses and springs using both linear and inverse square attraction. Both a Java Applet and a Java Application form for the program was made, allowing for local data capture (application) and web page viewing (applet) Data was captured and graphed using the GnuPlot program, clearly showing the structure or lack of structure of the resulting motion. |
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The second program was a simple, non-graphical Hopfield neural network. The task was to use 5x8 character cells representing numbers to build the weights matrix for the network. Several inputs were then tried to test the "recall" of the network. The net was stressed sufficiently to show false recalls and inverted patterns. |
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The first use of StarLogo was to implement a homework project
suggested in one of the lectures. This was to show the unequal distribution
of wealth which results from a simple model of an economy.
In this world, each agent (turtle) randomly gives or gets $1 upon meeting a fellow agent. Each agent starts with $100. Contrary to intuition, rather than a relatively constant income distribution among the agents, a pronounced imbalance of income arises. |
| The second investigation was to observe the interesting and
non-intuitive properties of the random walk by instrumenting several (101)
simultaneous random walks which graphically show the gradually increasing
distance of the walker.
A plot was then made, illustrating the square root behavior of the distance distribution. |
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