Cellular modelling of the monochromatic urban colouristic dynamics

The object of the study is urban colour, and its subject is the predictive modelling of its possible changes. The aim of the work is the application of a cellular model for the study of the dynamics of the monochromatic urban colourists, the main principle of which is the replication of the same colour in the design of as many architectural facades of a locality as possible. The study used a ready-made cellular automaton model created in the NetLogo multi-agent programmable modelling environment. In the settings, the parameters corresponding to the statistical data of the city of Neustadt (Germany) were set. The model made it possible to control the dimensions of the matrix and time horizon, the rate of change, the initial ratio of houses of a certain colour. The evolution of the system was considered for matrices measuring 44 by 44, 20 by 20 and 10 by 10, at a time horizon of 100 cycles. The application of the cellular model allowed to significantly expand the boundaries of the analysis of urban colourists. The obtained empirical data made it possible to reveal the essential characteristics of the mechanisms of development of a monochrome model of urban colouristic and determine their tempo. With the help of the cellular automaton, threshold values were established that triggered fundamentally different types of adaptation of the new colour tradition and revealed their dependence on the choice of the location of the redecorated buildings in the city’s colour field. In the future, the use of cellular automata in the urban colour planning can provide fundamentally new results describing the mechanisms of the emergence of complex behaviour from simple actions, visualizing the changes that occur and analysing their future states.