^ Click this image to see the animated demonstration.

  The bugs interact with seagrass by eating it. They also reproduce once they eat certain amount of grass, and die once they lived their longevity. Variables such as how many bugs to start with, how long they live or how many new bugs they reproduce can be changed through the probe.

    We also experimentally added to the bug objects the ability of modifying the landscape, for example, changing the water depth assuming they are digging holes when they spawn. Changed landscape can be written into output files in the same format as the input GIS data layers, and be seen in  GIS programs.
 

*Swarm tutorial program is included in Swarm application package which you can download from either ftp site of  Santa Fe Institute or its ftp mirror in our server.

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