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Jon West
Jon West

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Is there a way in netlogo to get a turle to leave the simulation area and then come back after a certain number of ticks?

I am working on a evacuation simulation, my turtles represent vehicles that leave an area, I currently do this by having the turtle die when it reaches the evacuation point, however I would like to have the vehicle return show up elsewhere on the map and return to the original point of origin (to pick up more passengers to evacuate) I am unsure hide turtle will do this properly, because I don't want the turtle interacted with while it is "off the map" Is there a way to do what I want?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

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Charles
Charles

Reputation: 4168

Jon,

Two ways I can think of.

One would be to indeed make the vehicle hidden and then have all your normal interactions with turtles be instead with vehicles with [not hidden?]. You could then refer to the hidden vehicles as vehicles with [hidden?]. I'm assuming that you have a vehicles breed, but if all turtles are vehicles, then it would be turtles with [not hidden?], etc.

But breeds suggests a different approach. Turtles can change their breeds, so if you have a breed vehicles, then you could create another breed (say) inactive-vehicles. When a vehicle has reached the evacuation point, you could ask it to set breed inactive-vehicle and set hidden? true. You could then continue to refer to active cars as vehicles and these inactive cars as inactive-vehicles. So, ask vehicles ... will just refer to those that are still active. You could then ask inactive-vehicles to go wherever you wish and then reset their breed to vehicles. (I'm not sure inactive-vehicles is great breed name, but it can be anything you want.)

Hope this helps, Charles

Upvotes: 2

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