The simulation works like this: peeps in a network do simple rules to create counter-intuitive collective behavior. Below, we start with a randomly mixed society of cowboys & fezzes. Each peep thinks: "If more than half of my friends wear some hat, I'll wear that hat, too." What happens?

Through bottom-up choices, with no top-down force... our peep society splits itself up. (sometimes they all become one hat type. if you get this result, hit "reset" and try again) Relating to the real world: this sim could explain how cultural boundaries form, or how political polarization happens.

But that's just one example, and this is just an embarrassingly unfinished prototype. There's so much more I want to add, such as:

a way to "program" everything, with an accessible, NON-programmer interface. (like in Emoji Simulator)

a way to save & share your simulations, as well as remix others' simulations. (like in LOOPY)

a way to create "slideshows" of simulations so you can tell a full story about a system!

The point is: I want to help people understand people.

I want to create a toy that lets people play with and make their own models of social systems -- combining psychology, sociology, economics, history, politics, etc -- so they can see how individuals are shaped by society in the short run... but also how individuals shape society in the long run.

High hopes for a bunch of badly-drawn stick figures.