A visualization of the rise and dispersion of concepts. See https://www.isaacbowen.com/2013/tremble.
View the live version at https://isaacbowen.github.io/tremble/.
- All agents are vibrating -- trembling
- An idea emerges, visualized as a ball rising from baseline and taking on a certain color
- Its presence creates some probability that its neighbors will find the idea catching -- and if the idea catches, they take on the color, and rise
- The more neighbors the sway of a particular idea, the higher the chance that an agent will find itself caught up in the idea as well
- At any moment, there's a chance that an agent will lose the idea, and return to its baseline state -- its original position and color
- I didn't code for this part, but if an idea succeeds in sweeping the entire board, it becomes the new baseline -- it is locked in, and it is the new origin from which new concepts may (and will) arise