DANM 220: Week 4, Tuesday, 1/29/08

Discussion
  • Complex dynamical systems and the world council of tribal elders
  • Chaos theory, cellular automata, and cellular dynamical systems
  • Movies of the double logistic family
  • How to make a movie from a NetLogo model with sound
Programming
  • The NetLogo 3D feature
Hints: Two brief texts on chaos and complexity may be found [ HERE ]: MS#97, a stariway to chaos (216 KB PDF) and MS#98, complex dynamical systems (16 KB PDF)
  • For silent movie making with NetLogo 4.0.2, see the "movies" category in the NetLogo Dictionary
  • For separately recording the sounds of a NetLogo model:
    • Use an external digital audio recorder and the headphones port of your computer, OR
    • Use third party audio pipe software to record the sound track [ eg, Audio Hijack Pro for Mac OSX ($32) or SoundFlower for Mac OSX (free) ], then
    • Combine the audio and video into a sound movie with iMovie or equivalent
  • To record the 2D graphic animation and the sounds all at once, try Snapz Pro X2 Movie Capture ($69 for Mac OSX) Assignment due 5M at 5 pm:
    • Spruce up your NetLogo model from the final assignment of Workshop #1 (or a new model) with sound, monitors, plots, instructions for the "Information" tab page, and full comments on the procedures page. Post on your website as a *.nlogo file (not as an applet).
    Revised by Ralph, 30 January 2008