Fig. 3: Collective contour capturing emerges as the result of collective opinion dynamics and homophily in space.

The traces of agents start black and become blue (and brighter) over time. Agents converge from the initial random distribution to the mean contour lines of the environment for four different information landscapes. Each plot on the left side corresponds to an information distribution on the right grayscale plot, with the iso-contour lines shown in light yellow and the mean contour line (ground truth) in a thick blue line. The video of agents optimizing the dissonance function following homophily is available via this link: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26217539.v1⁶⁷.