In this project, I investigate how firefly-firefly interactions of specific firefly species lead to synchronized group bioillumination patterns based on certain firefly parameters. I implemented an agent-based model to replicate the synchronizing behavior of these fireflies and then graphically and visually saw how parameters such as firefly influence range, traversal step, and number of fireflies changes the time to synchronization. I found, generally, that increasing the number of agents, traversal step size, and influence range will decrease the time to synchronization. However, I also found a high amount of variability in the data, which we will discuss how this affects the overall characteristics of our findings. This was done as a group project in Complexity Science.
