Academic Opinion Clustering — 3D Simulator

This 3D companion visualizes the same Deffuant bounded-confidence opinion-dynamics model as a cloud of academics scattered around a shared skeptical-to-convinced axis, rather than a flat histogram. Each academic only moves when a randomly paired peer's opinion already sits within a confidence threshold ε of their own — beyond that threshold the pair simply does not interact — so orbiting the scene lets you watch the cloud pull apart into distinct, persistent clumps of belief instead of collapsing into one smeared consensus. Adjust ε, the convergence rate μ, and the population size, and see how a handful of independent rival camps can lock in place and never merge.