0.3.0

Two big new introductions to the Flocc family are:

Lisp-like Rules

A new constructor, Rule, can be used in place of a function in agent.addRule(rule). So far these Rules are less efficient than using functions directly, but have a lot of promise in giving the rules agents follow a tangible data structure, rather than interpreted from function syntax. Documentation to come.

Ex.

const steps = [
  ['local', 'x', 10],
  ['local', 'y', 20],
  [
    'set', 
    'pos',
    ['vector', ['local', 'x'], ['local', 'y']
  ]
];
const rule = new Rule(steps);
agent.addRule(rule);

Equivalent to:

function rule(agent) {
  const x = 10;
  const y = 20;
  agent.set('pos', new Vector(x, y));
}
agent.addRule(rule);

Histogram Renderer

Like the LineChartRenderer, a Histogram visualizes aggregate data, by sorting agent data into 'buckets' and depicting the relative size (# of agents) in each bucket (say, 0-10 vs. 10-20 vs. 20-30).

Ex.

const histogram = new Histogram(environment, {
  buckets: 6,
  min: 0,
  max: 90
});
histogram.mount('#histogram');
histogram.metric('age'); // key of agent data to bucket