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Cabinet of emergence — specimen 03

Schelling's segregation model

Two types of agents on a grid, each wanting only some fraction of their neighbors to match their own type — nobody wants a monoculture, nobody is racist by the standard reading, everybody would be content living in a genuinely mixed neighborhood. Anyone below their threshold moves to a random empty spot. That's the whole rule. The question: how mild does that preference have to be before the population still ends up sorted?

Live specimen · 40×40 · 85% occupied

Ready.

0.30

Field journal

0 batches logged this session

Segregation index
% unsatisfied

Random baseline for a 50/50 population is an index around 0.50 — that's the number a batch needs to clear before "segregation" means anything.