Figure 5.

Monolayer simulations with various bond dynamics parameters. Panel a shows a typical cell configuration using our standard set of parameter values: p = 10⁻³, q₀ = 10⁻² and k = 0.2. Decreasing p to p = 10⁻⁴ results in sparse connectivity (b). If the connections are maintained longer, such as in the choice of q₀ = 10⁻³, the number of links between non adjacent cells increases (c). The average number of connections per cell (n) saturates with increasing p (d). Red, green, blue and violet colors indicate q₀ values of 0.001, 0.002, 0.01 and 0.02, respectively.