Difference between revisions of "Chemotaxis"
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# Generate a random unit vector <math>\vec c</math>, as a potential chemotactic force acting on <math>p</math>. | # Generate a random unit vector <math>\vec c</math>, as a potential chemotactic force acting on <math>p</math>. | ||
+ | # Along vector <math>\vec c</math>, sample the chemoattractant in the chemical field, both ahead and behind particle vector <math>p</math>, as vector <math>C^+</math> and vector <math>C^-</math>. |
Revision as of 18:23, 15 December 2016
This tutorial will guide you through the steps of adding a chemotactic force to the cells in your simulation. Requirements for chemotaxis include a population of agents, and a chemical field of a chemoattractant. The agents will move along the chemical gradient toward the chemoattractant.
In this example, a simple method is used to calculate the chemotactic force on a particle which responds to a chemoattractant , as follows:
- Generate a random unit vector , as a potential chemotactic force acting on .
- Along vector , sample the chemoattractant in the chemical field, both ahead and behind particle vector , as vector and vector .