WATOR - Water Torus
 
Wator is a toroidal world, covered entirely with water.
Wator is populated with two species: fishes and sharks.
The time on Wator is measured in units called Chronons.

 
The fishes just swim around and reproduce each fish repro chronons.
The sharks swim araund, hunt fishes and reproduce each shark repro chronons.
If a shark does not find a fish within shark food chronons, it dies.
 
You can change five parameters to define the behavoiur of WATORs ecosystem.
 
init. fishes : the initial number of fishes
fish repro : the number of chronons, a fish must wait until it reproduces
init. sharks : the initial number of sharks
shark repro : the number of chronons, a shark must wait until it reproduces
shark food : the number of chronons, a shark survives without eating a fish

  After changing a parameter, you must press the RETURN key to
apply the new parameter !
 

  The idea for this program was published by A.K. Dewdney in the Scientific American
column "Computer Recreations" in December 1984.

 
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