Boids

Description

The Boids library provides features to implement coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. The code is based on Craig W. Reynolds flocking model and Conrad Parker's pseudocode.

Essentially, a boid, a single element in the flock, has three simple steering behaviours:

Separation: steer to avoid crowding local flockmates
Alignment: steer towards the average heading of local flockmates
Cohesion: steer to move towards the average position of local flockmates

The beauty of it is that the flock doesn't have a predefined flight path, or any math describing its motion; a flock is totally and naturally self-organising.

Download

boids.zip (5KB)
Last updated for NodeBox 1.0rc4.

Commands in the Boids library

flock()
Boids.update()
Boids.scatter()
Boids.goal()
Boids.nogoal()
Boids.boids[]

Example

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