Simulating Life

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Since I just changed my project, I will write my plan first. My new project is malaria life cycle after the infected mosquito bites the human to release the sporozoites. I have agents for sporozoites entering and parasitize the liver cell to asexually duplicate producing thousands of merozoites. First, I want to simulate from sporozoites asexually reproducing merozites in the liver cell and infect the human red blood cell to produce malaria zygote. Then, I want to think if I can add anything to it.

Code Review

My project keeps crashing so I started with small number of each agent. The black sphere is sporozoites and the red agent is the red blood cell. The brown terrain represents a liver cell.

I want sporozoites (black sphere) to reproduce another sporozoite agent whenever they are in the liver cell (brown background). Andrew suggested to use “on collision with __” with Terrain breeds that is set as brown color in the world. However, it does not create anything while forever. I still cannot figure out how I should code this.

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  1. I would have the liver cell have 2 colors
    – uninfected
    – infected
    if hit by sporoziotes, it becomes infected and makes merozoites (be sure to keep this straight)

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