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Are the agents independent or are they affected by neighbors? It would be nice to see some classic ABM examples like wolf-sheep population, flocking, and wildfire spread to demonstrate the utility of this.
You should work on inter-agent interaction next! It's so much fun. I have played with this a fair amount and put a couple of my experiments in a repo- both slime mold simulation and "particle life". Here's the repo: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/compute-shaders And a video of the slime mold: https://twitter.com/_jason_today/status/1663378736098738177?...
Super cool, curious to see where you take this! I did some work on GPGPU for agent simulations for an RTS years ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4fKJIrv0J8 ). Doing things like pathfinding on the GPU gets tricky, especially taking into account how agents affect paths of other agents. Happy to jam anytime if you're brainstorming applications.
Are the entities interacting in any way here? That's pretty critical for agent based models as they enable complicated/unexpected emergent behavior from simplified rules due to the interactions of the entities.
Another related project for ABMs utilizing GPUs: https://docs.flamegpu.com/guide/index.html
reminds me of the flocking demos 20 years ago...
Another fun one, not sure about accuracy, but the visuals are stunning. https://youtu.be/dSkxvi9igqQ https://github.com/chrxh/alien/
If you want to create some pretty effects, add the concept of a velocity-texture which is added to agents velocity as they pass over it. Then let the user draw on the texture. Very cheap way to get interactivity. My own version from before compute shades were a thing ( https://moritonal.github.io/force-particles/ )