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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by slededit on Thursday September 22, 2016 @08:02PM (#12561368)
Correct, but unbounded continual iteration more cleanly represents real life. The real flaw in the simulation is the limitation of free space, the world is a much bigger place.
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Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together? by dwaltrip on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:37AM (#12562741)
Well, if we are talking about a city, space is often somewhat scarce. Regardless, I don't think that would reduce segregation.

I think the biggest limitation is "unhappy" polygons moving to random locations, instead of having some choice in the matter. Reducing this limitation would result in faster convergence towards a stable, segregated state, as the choices made would reflect the bias of the participants.

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