I have animals walk around and a line then connects all the locations that they walked to. The line forms a closed polygon. I also used the graphics extension to fill the polygon for visual purposes. But I don't know how to have all of the patches that fall within the polygon become the territory of the owner (i.e., the animal that formed the polygon). It is possible for patches to be owned by multiple animals. The code below illustrates overlapping polygons. I'd really appreciate any help on this. Thanks!
extensions [graphics]
breed [animals animal]
breed [homeranges homerange]
animals-own
[
Name
X
Y
]
patches-own
[
owner
]
homeranges-own
[
Name
]
to setup
clear-all
random-seed 4
ask patches
[
set owner nobody
set pcolor grey
]
let $colors [brown orange violet sky lime]
let $Name ["t6" "t7" "t8" "t9" "t10"]
ask n-of 5 patches with [(pycor < 10 and pycor > -10) and (pxcor < 10 and pxcor > -10)]
[
sprout-animals 1
[
set shape "circle"
set color item who $colors
set pcolor color
set X (list xcor)
set Y (list ycor)
set Name item who $Name
set owner self
]
]
graphics:initialize min-pxcor max-pycor patch-size
reset-ticks
end
to go
repeat 5
[
ask animals
[
rt 45
fd 2
set X lput pxcor X
set Y lput pycor Y
set pcolor [color] of self
]
]
ask animals
[
pen-up
let tempXY (map [list ?1 ?2] X Y)
graphics:fill-polygon tempXY
; create a turtle, which draws the homerange boundary
hatch-homeranges 1
[
hide-turtle
set Name [Name] of myself
set color [color] of myself
]
; draw the homerange boundary
foreach tempXY
[
ask homeranges with [Name = [Name] of myself]
[
move-to patch (item 0 ?) (item 1 ?)
pen-down
]
]
; connect the last point of the homerange with the first one, to close the polygon
ask homeranges with [Name = [Name] of myself]
[
let lastpoint first tempXY
move-to patch (item 0 lastpoint) (item 1 lastpoint)
]
]
end
