Unknown's avatar antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 4:41 pm on September 23, 2019  

Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) – background and update by Craig Reynolds

 

Source: Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model)

 

Boids
Background and Update
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In 1986 I made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. I called the generic simulated flocking creatures boids. The basic flocking model consists of three simple steering behaviors which describe how an individual boid maneuvers based on the positions and velocities its nearby flockmates:

separation diagram Separation: steer to avoid crowding local flockmates
alignment diagram Alignment: steer towards the average heading of local flockmates
cohesion diagram Cohesion: steer to move toward the average position of local flockmates

 

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