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Rumor-fx

This is the repository for my Computer networks and Distributed systems class assignment. I wrote a program that demonstrates the rumor spreading algorithms described in the paper, How to Discreetly Spread a Rumor in a Crowd written by Mohsen Ghaffari and Calvin Newport in 2016.

The program was written in Kotlin with TornadoFX.

Build and run

Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/pjozsef/Rumor-FX.git
Install a Java8 JDK
Build
- ./gradlew fatjar on Linux
- ./gradlew.bat fatjar on Windows
Run
- java -jar build/libs/rumor-fx-all-1.0.0.jar

Usage

Graph editor pane on the left
- Add a new node by left clicking on the editor pane
- Select a node by left clicking on it (you to select a node to start the simulation)
- Delete a node by Ctrl + left clicking on it
- Move a node by left mouse dragging it
- Add a new edge by Shift + left click and dragging from one node to the other
- Delete an edge by drawing a line crossing it with Shift + left click and drag
Settings pane on the right
- Adjust animation speed with the animation speed slider (sliding it to zero disables animation and the simulation terminates immediately)
- Start a simulation with the PUSH, PULL, PUSH-PULL B=0, PUSH-PULL B=1 buttons
- To load a larger, predefined graph, click the LOAD button
- To clear your current graph entirely, click the Clear button
- While the simulation is running, you will see a label that shows how many rounds have passed since the start