CESAM / Running Ant / Merging Bee / Walking Turtle
(1996-2010): Several software programs were developed for scientific projects. Their names, which give a clue on the used algorithm, follow a tradition that bases on Tom Quinn's spider bins. Several iterations of Running Ant and Merging Bee were built to group data according to specific criteria in Excel spreadsheets for the downstream analysis. One version was used to generate and solve about 14,000 linear equations (see article). Walking Turtle was an algorithm to generate a virtual scatter and step by step instructions for the sampling with a microscope in a randomized systematic manner. It was used for my morphometric thesis. [IPLab script language (Mac), THINK Pascal (Mac), VisualBasic for Excel (Windows)]