🌍 Cultural Dissemination Lab: 2D Axelrod Model
Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination on a 2D grid: neighbours copy traits in proportion to cultural similarity, producing regions, borders and polarisation. Add cultural drift, mass media, bounded confidence, terrain barriers and hand-painted cultures, and watch region count, largest region and neighbour similarity evolve.
⚙ Under the hood
Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination on a 2D grid: neighbours copy traits in proportion to cultural similarity, producing regions, borders and polarisation. Add cultural drift, mass media, bounded confidence, terrain barriers and hand-painted cultures, and watch region count, largest region and neighbour similarity evolve.
cultural anthropologyAxelrod modelcultural diffusionsocial simulationpolarisationagent-based model
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install