Boids : An artificial life simulation of flock of birds

A visual demonstration of the Boids flocking algorithm simulating bird behaviors like collision avoidance, velocity matching, and flock cohesion.

This is a simulation of the flocking of birds called Boids. I copy a link below to a website with more information about the algorithm. Each triangle represents a bird in the simulation. The color represents the current behavior of the bird. If it is white, it is just going straightway. If it is green, it has seen some close birds and tries to get closer to them. If it is blue, it is sufficiently close to other birds and tries to go in the same way as them. If it is red, it tries to avoid collision with a close bird. What you see are flocks of birds forming and merging. It's part of the interest I have in artificial life. My code (all C + SDL now) is available here: github.com/Lehnart/alife A proper description of the method and the algorithm is available here: cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2008-0… #science #video #swarm #computer #computerscience #artificiallife #artificial #shorts #simulation