Running a simulation

Calling the start() method in the Simulation class will launch the ABM platform and run it as follows. A text-based UI will prompt for a name of the simulation and a corresponding mode (described below).

Note

There are four different modes for running a simulation:

0: New simulation

1: Continue a previous simulation

2: Convert a previous simulation’s images to a video

3: Archive (ZIP) a previous simulation’s outputs

To avoid the text-based UI, the name and mode can be passed at the command line by using flags (without the parentheses). Note: the simulation file does not have to be named “main.py”.

python main.py -n (name) -m (mode)

When continuing a previous simulation (mode=1), the ABM will prompt for the updated end-step number, though this can be passed like above.

python main.py -n (name) -m (mode) -es (end-step)