FIT 100
© Copyright 1999-2000
University of Washington
Modeling And Simulation: Key Ideas
vSimulations will
usually have some representation of time and space
oExample: in the Game
of Life, a 2-D rectangular grid of cells for space, and a step count for time
vModels are
abstractions of the real world – we can’t represent everything, so we pick with
care the attributes of interest to represent