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🌍 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.

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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

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