# flock This is an implementation of a flocking model first designed by Craig Reynolds in 1986. You can see Craig's discussion of it here: http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ This also draws on some ideas from 'The Computational Beauty of Nature' - Gary William Flake It is a very straight foward implementation that is not efficient but allows for rules to be added, removed and modified while the application is running. TODO: * Add some form of data structure for efficently calculating neighbours, possibly a quad-tree or kd-tree. * Write or find faster vector operations (could use PVector from proccessing libs). * Refine the boid neigbourhood by restricting the angular range. * Add 'sight' rule from Flake to produce V shape. You can check it out by downloading https://github.com/jsofra/flock/raw/master/target/flock-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar and running: java -jar flock-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar Click the window to add new boids, they will flock and avoid the mouse cursor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Clojure flocking examples: http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/07/flocking-about-with-clojure.html https://github.com/swannodette/flocking https://github.com/rosejn/flocking Other neat examples: http://breefield.com/lab/flock/ http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms---flocking