Hi readbeard,
Please explain, how do you calculate the number of colonies in a given environment.
You mentioned in the first 'situtation': This is only possible if you don't count single cell as one colony. Please verify that it is the truth.

From my perspective, in the first situation at t0 and t1, both have 3 colonies.

If my perspective is correct, then your problems is that how many 2-D groups you can find for given 'environment' at different timings. There may be well known algorithms for this. What I recall is the TileFall perl Program from PerlPress. See how the initial groups are calculated and you may find your algorithm from there.

I also suggest to research Graphical algorithm index and to get some valuable hints.

artist

In reply to Re: Re: Re: colony splitting by artist
in thread colony splitting by redbeard

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