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Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma

Interactive lab: Cooperation survives on geometry alone.

What is this?

A visual, interactive experiment about Spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma. Its main parameters update live and the simulation runs entirely in the browser.

How it works

Cooperators inside a cluster protect one another. Spatial boundaries let them survive where a well-mixed population would eliminate them.

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