What These Results Show

This exercise shows that even mild preferences to be near members of one’s own group can lead to extreme segregation. For instance, here’s how the opening board changed after you satisfied the preferences of all pieces:

In the example above, each piece simply wanted to be near three same-colored neighbors. None of the pieces sought to avoid the other group or would even have been bothered by having most neighbors be a different color, yet the end result was a high degree of segregation.