Deffuant Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics v2

Cluster formation, polarization, and consensus regimes

Confidence ε 0.200 Convergence μ 0.50

Agents N 200 Noise σ 0.000

Init distribution

Iteration: 0 | Clusters: — | Largest cluster: —% | ε regime: —

Deffuant-Weisbuch model: Random pair (i,j) interact if |x_i − x_j| < ε:
x_i ← x_i + μ(x_j − x_i), x_j ← x_j + μ(x_i − x_j)
Phase transitions: ε > 0.5 → consensus; ε ~ 0.3 → 2 clusters (polarization); ε ≪ 1 → fragmentation.