Python Made Easy: A Beginner’s Guide to Coding, Data Structures, and Practical Applications

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14. Some Examples

Marco Gähler¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

Percolation

Roughly speaking, percolation is the simulation of forest fires. You take a checkerboard-like pattern and randomly fill each field with a tree or desert. Then you set fire to all the trees along one side and watch how the fire spreads. If the probability exceeds a certain limit, the fire will spread to the other side. Below that limit, it will go out first.

First, we have to import a few libraries and set the random number seed.

Now we continue with defining the types of fields. We have deserts that cannot burn, trees ...