Recently one of the well-known researchers in the field has proposed an interesting opinion dynamics model, which aims to explain polarization and group formation in human societies [1]. His model is based on two antipodal concepts in human interactions: trust and suspicion.

In this post we will introduce the trust and suspicion model for the case with two agents.

We have already written about Sierpinski Triangle, but at that time we haven't even considered that constructing this fractal is possible within PowerPoint. While not entirely practical, it is almost certainly amusing!

Let us briefly come back to the Deffuant's model and discuss the impact of noise on the dynamics of the model. There multiple ways to introduce the noise into the model, so here we will focus on the way proposed in [1].

We used to have more java applets dedicated to fractals before we have made transition to HTML5 technology. Sadly we haven't yet updated some of them to HTML5. One of the best looking applets, Mandelbrot Set applet, is still among those to be "updated". So this time we suggest an interesting video about this fractal set by Numberphile.

Here we continue our discussion on the Talent vs Luck model proposed in [1]. This time we offer you an app which allows you to explore quartile dynamics in this model.