A Model of Wild Flowers Growing on a Hill

by Jenna Vanliere

My project was designing a model of how three different types of wildflowers would grow on a hill in the springtime. I started with a grass hill randomly spotted with thirty wildflowers of red, yellow, and turquoise color. I created black bees as means of the flowers procreating. When the bees land on a flower, they pick up a seed from it. Two spaces away the bees drop the seed. If the space is a grass space, a flower of the same color then grows there. It is interesting to see the different colors appear in patches.

This picture shows the initial setup, with the different color flowers randomly scattered on the hill.

This picture shows the flowers after several cycles. The black bees are spreading the seeds and patches are begining to develop.

This picture shows the hill after many cycles. Patches of color have clearly formed. This models a typical hill covered in wildflowers in the spring.