And in addition, sometimes the birds don't want to keep their distance at
all - there's a lot of squabbling, other species intermingle and are
ignored or hounded, and so forth. It's more a form of roiling - you can
see that in the birds who are landed in the river or coming into land.
This
For sure the behaviors of actual birds are far more complex than those of
boids. Similarly, L-systems model the growth of plant forms, but they truly
do not capture the way growth happens in plants.
Nevertheless, the simple models give rise to complexity, and their dynamics
might model something
Hi Paul!
These are absolutely beautiful! I've been familiar with boyds for a long
time and refreshed my memory before I did the piece. I don't have the
skills to implement the work, but what I was interested in was probably
closer to catastrophe theory (or what's left of catastrophe theory?). The
I think some of my flocking images might interest you, as might the code
behind them. I implemented Craig Reynolds' Boids Algorithm building on code
by Daniel Shiffman. I wanted to use the simulated flocks for drawing, not
unlike your multiple image bird paths.
Flocking and steering algorithms
