output of a MOM net stimulation

No, the MOM project is not gone. Because of a horrible 14-hours workday (incl. 4 hours commuting), I simply lack the time to work on MOM. However, this night I found some time to twiddle around with it, developed a very simple kind-M net net generator in Ruby which features node salting, dotty output and progression over time. Below, you find a screenshot of its output. This screenshot shows three different states of the same MOM net.

The top one is almost the initial state. All nodes were set to a value of two, thus were active. Additionally, the net was salted. That means: Some nodes were randomly picked and their values were increased by a random value. That's why there are floating point numbers in the graph at all.

To keep the node shapes small but stay able to watch the values, I added helper nodes. Those display the values and link to their respective real node. Those helper nodes obviously aren't related to anything other but to those nodes they serve as labels for.

Note, despite the bright box in the bottom left corner of each graph, the screenshots show immediately consecutive states: Top is state 1, middle is state 2, bottom is state 3.
 

The center graph shows the net after one iteration. What happened to each node by now was: Every successor node (top level) got its value divided by 2.0. Every active predecessor node stimulated their successors by 1.0, every predecessor node -- active or not -- got their values divided by 2.0 too.

You may notice a color change: Nodes being still active are colored green, as well as their edges to successor nodes. Nodes not active anymore became orange now. You might also notice a different edge style now: Dotted lines means the predecessor node may have change, but at time of the screenshot it didn't effect its successor. That's for: In case some node turns green but didn't effect its successor, the dotted line makes that clear.
 

Another step in time, bottom graph, you notice the color of most of the nodes faded out furtherly. The links between label nodes and real nodes are solid as always. The values of originally unsalted nodes is down to 0.5.
 

Why this new verve? -- I just thought, it'd be a good idea to present MOM and share it with others to improve it together, rather than aiming and aiming for a perfect outcome but having that rather slowly only, because of lack of time.




Well, actually Nathan Sobo's presentation of Treetop inspired me.

      
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