Immigration Policy
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breed [cops cop] breed [immigrants immigrant] ;; negative freedom = remaining ticks in jail immigrants-own [freedom] to setup clear-all ;; sets the background to yellow ask patches [ set pcolor yellow if ( pycor = -12 ) and ( pxcor <= -12 ) [ set pcolor black ] if ( pycor = -16 ) and ( pxcor <= -12 ) [ set pcolor black ] if ( pxcor = -12 ) and ( pycor <= -12 ) [ set pcolor black ] if ( pxcor = -16 ) and ( pycor <= -12 ) [ set pcolor black ] ] ;; sets the turtles to use the person icon set-default-shape cops "person" create-cops initial-number-cops [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor set color blue ] ;; creates the immigrant variable set-default-shape immigrants "person" create-immigrants initial-number-immigrants [ setxy random-xcor random-ycor set color red set freedom 1 ] ask immigrants [ if xcor <= -12 and ycor <= -12 [ set xcor 0 set ycor 0 ] ] ask cops [ if xcor <= -12 and ycor <= -12 [ set xcor 0 set ycor 0 ] ] end to go ask cops [ move catch-immigrants ] check-freedom tick end to move ask cops [ let x-orig xcor let y-orig ycor rt random 100 lt random 100 fd 1 if pcolor = black [set xcor x-orig set ycor y-orig] ] ask immigrants [ let x-orig xcor let y-orig ycor rt random 100 lt random 100 fd 1 if pcolor = black [set xcor x-orig set ycor y-orig] ] end to check-freedom ask immigrants [ if freedom = 0 [ set xcor 100 set ycor 100] if freedom < 1 [ set freedom (freedom + 1)] ] end to catch-immigrants let illegal one-of immigrants-here if illegal != nobody [ ask illegal [set freedom (-1 * jail-time) set xcor -14 set ycor -14] ;; [set color green] ;; ask turtles with [color = green] ;; [ pd ] ] end
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