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@Joe_0237@fosstodon.orgThis simulation I made demonstrates how mosquitoes in a room can quickly end up in a bug zapper with a light even though they are not attracted to light.
Mosquitoes use the light to tell direction. Attraction occurs as an emergent property of using a nearby light to navigate under the assumption that it is "at infinity" (like the sun and moon are in nature), being in a confined space, and not preferring any direction.
This is explanatory and is not a perfect model of mosquito navigation.
If anyone wants code, a better graphic, or anything else let me know.
being able to circle the light may be helpful for attracting these pests
@Joe_0237 cool!
I'm the user you replied with this simulation at Lemmy.
What did you use?
@necrxfagivs awesome!Python and the Pillow library to make an animated gif, and ffmeg to render video from it
A working raster image represents the scene, each frame is copied into an array then that array is saved into a gif.
The mosquitoes travel in straight lines, using the light to tell direction, when they hit a wall or the light they pick a new random direction, if they do not exit the light in the next time step then they die.