StarLogo is a modeling and simulation software designed for children. It allows users to create, modify, and run computer programs in a fun and interactive way.
StarLogo is an innovative and comprehensive programmable modeling environment. It has been designed to explore the workings of decentralized systems which are organized without any central authorities. With StarLogo, users can model different real-life phenomena such as bird flocks, traffic jam, ant colonies and market economies. One of the most significant characteristics of decentralized systems is that they can have an orderly pattern without centralized control. This approach is becoming popular among researchers who are building organizations and technologies, and theories that they intend to apply in the real world.
StarLogo has been developed to help users understand decentralized systems and develop new ways of thinking. It is a specialized version of the Logo programming language which can create drawings and animations by commanding graphic "turtles" on the computer screen. StarLogo takes this a step further by allowing users to control thousands of graphic turtles in parallel. Moreover, StarLogo has made the turtles' world computationally active by allowing users to write programs for thousands of "patches" that make up the turtles' environment. Turtles and patches can interact with each other, for example, users can program the turtles to "sniff" around the world and change their behavior based on what they sense in the patches beneath.
StarLogo is suitable for Artificial Life projects and has had the following improvements in the latest release: a rewrote tail recursion detection which works correctly, fixed numerous hanging bugs on the MacOSX version of StarLogo, fixed the display of error dialog boxes when running StarLogo as an applet, and eliminated ugly redraws on the Macintosh version of StarLogo.
Additional improvements include fixing a bug in scatter plots where the generated StarLogo code was incorrect, correcting a bug that let turtles escape their StarLogo world and scribble on the widgets nearby, resizing the patch canvas back to default values when users do New Project, and fixing numerous documentation bugs. StarLogo requires Java 1.4 or later.
StarLogo has been developed to help users understand decentralized systems and develop new ways of thinking. It is a specialized version of the Logo programming language which can create drawings and animations by commanding graphic "turtles" on the computer screen. StarLogo takes this a step further by allowing users to control thousands of graphic turtles in parallel. Moreover, StarLogo has made the turtles' world computationally active by allowing users to write programs for thousands of "patches" that make up the turtles' environment. Turtles and patches can interact with each other, for example, users can program the turtles to "sniff" around the world and change their behavior based on what they sense in the patches beneath.
StarLogo is suitable for Artificial Life projects and has had the following improvements in the latest release: a rewrote tail recursion detection which works correctly, fixed numerous hanging bugs on the MacOSX version of StarLogo, fixed the display of error dialog boxes when running StarLogo as an applet, and eliminated ugly redraws on the Macintosh version of StarLogo.
Additional improvements include fixing a bug in scatter plots where the generated StarLogo code was incorrect, correcting a bug that let turtles escape their StarLogo world and scribble on the widgets nearby, resizing the patch canvas back to default values when users do New Project, and fixing numerous documentation bugs. StarLogo requires Java 1.4 or later.
What's New
Version 2.2: N/A