Box world in NetLogo 3D 7.04?
Patrick Grim
Nimesh Neema
Patrick,
Based on the behavior you are describing, it sounds like you might be running the NetLogo 3D application rather than the standard 2D NetLogo application. In NetLogo 3D, the model settings menu intentionally disables the wrapping checkboxes, and the topography/topology rules behave differently because it handles a three-dimensional matrix (X, Y, and Z axes).
See attached images.
I took a few screenshots on my machine to show you exactly what is happening:
- The App Icons: When you install NetLogo, it installs a suite of applications. As you can see in NetLogo apps (macOS).png, NetLogo 3D 7.0.4 sits right next to the standard NetLogo 7.0.4. It's incredibly easy to launch the 3D version by mistake because the icons are identical.
- The Missing Checkboxes: In NetLogo 3D.jpg, you can see the exact behavior you ran into. The "World wraps horizontally" and "World wraps vertically" checkboxes are completely missing from the Model Settings dialog because the 3D environment handles topology shifts differently.
- The Standard 2D Settings: In NetLogo.jpg (the standard version), those two checkboxes reappear exactly where you expect them to be.
The Solution / Workaround:
- Switch Apps: Close out of the window you are currently in and make sure you launch the standard NetLogo 7.0.4 application instead of the 3D variant. Once open, click the Settings button on the interface toolbar, and you will be able to uncheck the wrapping boxes to lock your world into a box.
- Correct the Code Syntax: If you prefer to change the world boundary using code, the command you are looking for is actually set-topology. If you run this in the Command Center or add it to your setup routine in the standard 2D app, it will instantly turn off wrapping and give you a box:
set-topology false false
Give launching the standard NetLogo version a shot and let me know if those settings panels show up for you!
I can't figure out how to get the world in 7.04 out of torus and into box. The options aren't there on 'settings,' and the set-topography false false command in code doesn't seem to do it either. Does someone have a workaround?
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