Daniel Steinbock

In a previous post, I wrote about Stuart Kauffman’s thought experiment on the emergence of a giant component in a randomly wired network, then linked you to a very rudimentary simulation I coded. Now I just found a very elegant version of the same model, complete with dynamic visualization of the network as it grows. As of September 2005, it’s now included in the standard Model Library that ships with NetLogo. I’m impressed that NetLogo can do spring-elastic network layout like the more powerful but user-unfriendly Pajek. Of course, Pajek is a network-specific analysis tool while NetLogo is a far more general purpose simulation package.

So go try out the new Giant Component model. (Java applet)