Social Insects & Superorganism

SOCIAL INSECTS SIMULATION

▸ Building the ant nest & brood chambers…

▸ Spawning workers · soldiers · the queen

▸ Calibrating pheromone trails (evaporation)

▸ Loading local rules → emergent colony behaviour

▸ Starting the superorganism…

▸ Ready — Online. ✅

Colony & superorganism

🐜 Emergent colony behaviour

Colony size—

Foragers—

Defending soldiers—

Food brought back—

Trail strength—

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Note

No individual is "in charge". Each one follows local rules (smelling pheromones, following the strongest trail) — from this the colony finds its way to food & builds an intelligent nest on its own: that is a superorganism.

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Pick a "Scenario" (recruitment · alarm · swarming…) · tap a caste/mechanism for details · drag the population/evaporation/food sliders to change the colony’s behaviour

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Colony activity over time foragerstrailalarmfood returned