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Schelling Segregation Model (2D)

Interactive 2D Schelling segregation model: watch a grid of two agent types self-sort into starkly divided neighborhoods from nothing more than a mild same-type preference.

AI & Machine Learning2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D simulator lays Thomas Schelling's classic 1971 agent-based model flat on a grid: two agent types are scattered randomly among empty cells, and each step every agent checks whether at least the chosen tolerance percentage of its occupied neighbors share its own type — unhappy agents jump to a random empty cell, and happy ones stay put. Raise the tolerance slider and watch a nearly-neutral preference snowball into sharply divided neighborhoods within a few dozen steps, track the live happy-agent percentage and segregation index as the grid settles, or step through frame by frame to see exactly which agents move and why.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D Schelling segregation model: watch a grid of two agent types self-sort into starkly divided neighborhoods from nothing more than a mild same-type preference.

Schelling ModelAgent-BasedSpatial Segregation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install