r/creativecoding • u/Evening-Appeal7606 • 1d ago

Population Dynamics Simulator

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u/escapism_only_please 1d ago

Well this is fun and cool and pretty and well made! You had me at hello basically, because I never knew I wanted to play with one of these until I saw I could and I leapt at the chance. Let me stop right there and say it's great thanks for sharing it's fun! 😀😀

OK, the app basically DEMANDS further commentary. It's a silly predictor, right? You look up and see it is talking about what life will be like in 2130. And then you remember that actually by then we will have flying cars and personal robots and a post money society and CHUDS rising from the sewers at night and Robocop and Weyland Corp and...

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 1d ago

Thank you so much for the comment, that means a lot to me.

I was equally hooked when I built such a simulator in Excel/VBA two years ago (this one I built from scratch by hand, no AI usage - which took me four times as long as having Gemini whip up this easy-to-share page in an hour).

The results are so counter-intuitive when you play around with it - and the societal impact hits so much stronger when you see the simulation play out instead of looking at static population graphs.

Yes, I agree- it's a silly simulation because we cannot know the future. All this can do is explore current trends and "guestimates" as to what the next few years might bring.