How to detect patch in front of turtle in Netlogo 3D - netlogo

I'm making a driving simulation in Netlogo 3D, and I want the car to "crash" and become the shape "fire" when it hits the side of the garage made out of colored patches that are a different color than the car and the ground. Its there a way for the turtle to detect the garage and "crash"?

patch-ahead should work in 3D.

Related

Can turtles move the lateral direction (left or right) in NetLogo?

My simulated turtles can move forward and backward.
In addition to it, I want to move turtles towards left or right directions with their heading direction keeping.
However, I don't know how codes acheves it.
Please tell me any codes to program it in NetLogo.
To make a turtle move left one square, have it do:
lt 90
fd 1
rt 90

Net Logo Turtle disappears inside of Patch

In Net Logo is there a value for a turtles Z coordinate, or its height in the 3D View? I have white patches in my simulation, when my turtles go into those patches they are not visible until they emerge from the other side of the patch.
In the screen shot, you can see edges of turtles inside of my white patches, I want to display them on top of the patch.
How can I do this?
I found the issue, simply use
set zcor 2
will place the turtles on top of the patches as I had hoped.

Node degree in a network

I have a landscape that includes a road network as in the below figure.
I would like to calculate an average number of roads (or white line in the figure) that link each color polygon (for example a black polygon) between them.
In a network, a link corresponds to a road, a node corresponds to a color polygon and I think that to calculate an average number of roads between color polygons means to calculate the average node degree of the network. For example, in the figure, the two black polygons are linked by two roads. So, the degree of a black polygon is 2. Is it possible to calculate a node degree with the extension Network of Netlogo ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Normal NetLogo contains link agents that link turtles even without an extension. Calculating degree is usually just a matter of doing [ count my-links ] of node where node is the turtle you want to know the degree of. However, in NetLogo, turtles can't be connected by more than one link. The typical workaround for this is create a links-own variable (just like turtles-own or patches-own variable) . This variable is often called weight, but you can call it whatever you want. In that case, you would do [ sum [ weight ] of my-links ] of node to calculate the degree.
This is all assuming you have a network representation of your roadways, which it doesn't sound like you do. Furthermore, I'm not sure what you're trying to represent is a network, since (as shown in your picture) roads branch at intersections. Thus more than two polygons could be connected by a single (for some definition of "single") road. This is often called a hypernetwork or hypergraph. However, this is probably a heavier weight concept than what you want.
Now, I'm not entirely sure what you're really trying to calculate. Is it:
...the number of roads connected to a polygon? The lower polygon has 4 roads connected to it, the upper has 3 (visible).
...the number of polygons directly connected to the polygon? Both polygons are connected to 1 other (visible) polygon, though I assume in the larger picture there are more.
The number of roads connected to a polygon would be pretty easy to calculate, assuming each road is 1 pixel wide. You could just do:
count (patch-set [ neighbors4 with [ is-road? ] ] of polygon)
where polygon is a patch set containing the patches of the polygon and is-road? is a reporter that returns true for road patches and false for non-road patches (this could be something pcolor = white). Note that this will break if roads are wider than 1 patch or if the same road can touch a polygon in other places. Let me know if that's the case and I'll expand this into something that can that into account.
The number of polygons directly connected to the polygon is more difficult. The basic idea would be to follow the roads out until you hit other polygons and count the number that you hit. Code for this is somewhat tricky. I think the best way to go about it would be to have two patch-sets, frontier and explored and list of found polygons. frontier should initialize to every road patch touch the polygon. Each iteration, get the polygons touching the frontier and add them to the list of found polygons if they're not already in there. Add the frontier to explored. Get all the road patches touching the frontier that are not in explored. Set the frontier to this new set of patches. Keep going until frontier is empty. This is a version of breadth-first search. There could be a better way to do this.

NetLogo tilt and roll issues in 3D model

I am building a model, which turtles move to the nearest green patch (cube).
nearest-patch
facexyz nearest-patch
fd distance nearest-patch
However, the angles of turtles' tilt and roll have changed after they arrive at each patch. How to make each turtle' tilt and roll to be 0 which turtle will parallel with XY plane, after they arrive on a patch. Thanks.
Turtles have pitch and roll variables that you can set like any other variables. So, you can do set pitch 0 and set roll 0 to align them with the XY plane.

Direct to move turtle to a specific spot

I have enclosed turtles in between walls and obstacles and want them to move to a specific goal spot. Each tick I forward turtle only a specific amount. How do I implement this in terms to variating the turtle heading?
Explaining more
In the above figure:
1. Consider all turtles inside the box at the start
2. You want turtles to reach goal spot above,(where turtles present currently in figure)
3. You have obstacles that is, walls in between which 1 opening that is the rectangle in the figure with the gap. Turtles have to pass this gap only.
How I tried
I make turtles face the goal spot using facexy and bounce back after colliding with wall but in doing so the turtles on extreme left and right of box keep colliding with wall since after each collision they again have the direction from facexy
Please help. Thanks in advance.
An easy fix (according to what I read about making the turtles bounce).
goal-xcor is the x-coordinate of goal.
goal-ycor is the y-coordinate
of goal.
random-number is a random number between 1 and 10(?).
`If COLLISION: `
if they're in the left make them facexy goal-xcor + random-number goal-ycor
if they're in the right make them facexy goal-xcor - random-number goal-ycor
If there is not any collision it means they're in the right way and they should keep going the goal direction.
It's important that you facexy goal-xcor goal-ycor every time you make them turn around. To be more clear: Pseudo-code:
1 setup-turtles-inside-box
loop:
2 ask all turtles to face goal.
3 ask all turtles to go forward.
4 if collision
5 if turtle-in-left
6 ask turtle to face goal-xcor + random-number goal-ycor
else
ask turtle to face goal-xcor - random-number goal-ycor
7 loop until all turtles are in goal.
Let us know of any doubt!
Here is another approach:
http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/en/random.htm