Spatial Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma

PAYOFF MATRIX

POPULATION

Cooperators (blue):
Defectors (red):
Generation: 0
Avg fitness:

SPATIAL PD

Nowak & May 1992: spatial structure
allows cooperators to survive by
forming clusters against defectors.

Update: copy neighbor with highest
payoff (imitation dynamics).

Cooperation can persist even when
b/c > 2 (network reciprocity).

C=blue, D=red, recent change=bright