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- A-Quarium is a fish tank simulator based on
- an A-Life program 'Boids' by Craig Renolds.
- Each fish is modelled individually with a simple
- algorithm.
- A fish will try to swim with a close neighbour if
- it is of the same species, and will try to swim
- away if it is of a different species.
- The behaviour of the fish tank is an emergent
- property of all the individual fish actions.
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- The program can be run as a normal 'windows'
- program from program manager or as a screen
- saver by including AQuarium.scr in your windows
- folder, then selecting A-Quarium from the choose
- screen savers from within the normal windows
- desktop in control panel
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- You can change the nature of your fish tank by
- altering the three control variables :
- NUMBER OF FISH minimum of 1 maximum of 60
- NUMBER OF SPECIES minimum of 1 maximum of 5
- FISH TO FISH INTERACTION DISTANCE:
- this is the maximum distance at which two
- fish can interact
- minimum 1 maximum 300
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- This is accomplished from the set-up item within
- desktop for the screen saver version or the
- set-up item of the options menu of the windows
- program.
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- With the windows program, you can also change
- the nature of your fish by selecting
- BALL & STICK drawings or CUTE FISH icons.
- The ball and stick display has the advantage of
- more realistic fish movements while the cute
- fish is just plain cute.
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- This program was written with the fabulous
- Visual Basic.
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- If you want the code or just want to comment
- on the program you can contact me at :
- R.Colasanti@Sheffield.ac.uk
-
- Pleasant pisciculture.
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- Ric Colasanti
- Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology
- University of Sheffield
- England
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