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24.4.2 Lookup frequency and entropy.

(for networks with homogeneous neighbourhoods only)

Enter ``return'' at #24.4 above to show the lookup frequency at each time-step (or for the last x time-steps, see #24.5 below) and its entropy.

The horizontal scale represents the lookup frequency from 0 to the maximum lookup n g, where n is the size of the network, and g the number of generations included. The vertical time axis corresponds to each time-step, alongside which 2k points are plotted, representing the lookup frequency of each rule-table entry, and colored accordingly. A point representing the entropy of this distribution is plotted on the same graph.

A separate histogram of the lookup frequency (on its side) is shown to the right, with 2k columns representing the lookup frequency of each rule-table entry, and colored accordingly. If ``3'' is entered at #2.4, the histogram will expand into a 3d graph with an extra ``time'' axis, shown as an axonometric projection.