Simulation Lab

The boids rules inside a small ecology, from the Python ABM lab. Each bird spends energy to fly, refuels at food patches, leaves a fading pheromone trail and, with energy to spare, splits in two; the offspring inherit its steering weights with small mutations. Optuna tried parameter sets and kept the one whose flock stayed most aligned and stable while surviving and keeping its energy up. This is that setting, run once offline and played back; the browser Flocking sheet runs the classic three rules live.

Engine

Mesa 3.5 · Python

World

100 × 100 torus · 80 boids at start · 10 food patches

Key parameters

speed 2.72 · vision 10.55 · separation 1.16

Run

500 steps · seed 31800

Tuning

Optuna, 500 trials · winner #318

Score

0.9237 of 1 (alignment, stability, survival, energy)

Colours

glow = pheromone trail · green = food · line colour = heading