After this morning’s meeting, most of today was spent fine-tuning the model. The one new feature I did add was making it so the glucose would slowly spread out over a large area, causing the fungus to have to chase after it more. Most of the variance for the temperature setting was created by using a slightly-controlled random number generator, which made the increase and decrease in effects very linear, but I received an equation from Emily which would make it a more natural bell curve, shown below.
This marks the first step in combining our models. Tomorrow, we will meet again and work to combine my fungus growth and temperature control with her dissolved o2 and PH controls, among other things, into one complete model, and we will go from there. I was planning to make all of the simulated organisms and nutrients move from one side of the screen to another to simulate water flow, but I questioned Dr. Aziz and he said focusing on the interactions in the existing model was more important, so I’ll scrap the idea for now.