ANT - Ant Colony Intelligence Laboratory

A reproducible educational simulation of ant-colony foraging. Ants follow a few local rules — sensing the chemical field, depositing and following food pheromone trails — and the collective pattern emerges from those local choices.

One reproducible experiment: play, pause, step, reset and follow a single ant.
Three guided exercises: read the first trail, change one parameter, follow one ant.
Run replay: versions, configuration, tick count, metrics and events are exported and re-simulated.
Model assumptions and evidence, labelled as simulated, calculated and user-supplied.

This is an educational agent model, not a validated reconstruction of a species. Ticks, distance, food and chemical values are abstract and not species-calibrated; the numbers shown are model outputs, not biological measurements, and a bright trail does not prove a shortest path.

The interactive simulation itself requires JavaScript.