Gridspace with agents that occupy more than one grid point

[TorkelE]

I have an ABM model of two interacting cell populations that I have implemented on a grid space, and it works very well. However, in reality, one of the cell types is ~2-4 times larger than the other one. The ideal way to model this would be to have that cell type occupy a 2x2 bit over the grid (with exclusion).

Is there any way to implement this currently? I saw this issue: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/agents-with-an-extent/104840/5 regarding it, however, it was looking at continuous space.

[Datseris]

No that his not currently possible. I would imagine that implementing agents with size is in general hard to achieve in a generic way.

[TorkelE]

Noted, thanks for the quick reply.