Nova Workshop2015: Greenhouse
This is an extension of the Insecticide model from the 2015 Nova Workshop at Oberlin College.
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About this model
This model looks at the rates of predator and prey with the use of insecticides in a greenhouse. The greenhouse has two rooms, 1 and 2. Individuals start in room 1 and have the possibility to move into room 2 at specified time intervals.
Programming Help
See the following for help with programming in JavaScript.
It may be helpful to search for Ternary Conditional, JS Math Functions, and If-else Statements in the Mozilla Developer Network site (developer.mozilla.org).
Room Design
The two rooms in this greenhouse can be visualized as the two chips insecticide_Room1 and insecticide_Room2 at the top-layer. These Chips are created by dragging the insecticide_ver1 sublayer unto the Canvas of the top-layer. Then simply rename the Chips to include Room1 and Room2. Each Chip is an instance of the layer. This means each Chip is a running version of that sublayer.
doorCond
Each room in this Greenhouse has two doors that will open at a specific time interval. Right doors allow individuals out of a room and left doors allow individuals into a room. The time interval when doors are opened are determined by the doorCond term at the top-layer.
Room 1
Room 1 will start with a number of Preys and Predators determined by the Init_Prey1 and Init_Pred1 Sliders at the top-layer. This Chip does not take in any individuals into its Prey_in or Pred_in inputs because there is no movement into room 1.
Room 2
Room 2 will start with a number of Preys and Predators determined by the Init_Prey2 and Init_Pred1 Sliders at the top-layer. This Chip takes in the Prey_out and Pred_out from the first Chip (Room 1) because individuals who leave from room 1 go into room 2.
Graphs and Plots
Right-click and drag over the outputs of the two Chips that you would like to see in a Graph and Table term (from the Component pallet).
