In section 2.3, an example of a dynamic landscape object was presented, which may or may not provide a realistic model of wildfire propagation. However, the software object presented in section 2 gives a way to model diffusion processes using GIS datasets and simple intercell ruless. While wildfire was used as the example, it is hoped that the reader will see the applicability to such a modeling process to other diffusion processes such as vegetation encroachment and groundwater flow.
It is conceivable that one would wish to explore situations where free-roaming agents would inhabit this dynamic landscape, who are capable of modifying the landscape while the landscape is modifying their behavior. Possible applications would be grazing animals who graze the vegetation in an area, leaving the selectively cropped vegetation to grow back by its own rules; recreational users in an area who use the most attractive areas, but whos collective impact reduce the area's attractiveness; or addition of firefighters in the fire model description described earlier, who attempt to contain an existing burn by increasing moisture or decreasing burnable biomass in cells one cell at a time.