Boids is an artificial life program developed by Craig Reynolds which simultes the flocking behaviour of birds.As with most artificial life simulations, Boids is an example of emergent behavior; that is, the complexity of Boids arises from the interaction of individual agents (the boids, in this case) adhering to a set of simple rules. The rules applied in the simplest Boids world are as follows:
- separation: steer to avoid crowding local flockmates
- alignment: steer towards the average heading of local flockmates
- cohesion: steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates
This repository tries to reimplement this which is in p5.js. This repo is based on the python version of p5.
Run:
sudo apt-get install libglfw3
pip install -r requirements.txt
For using fast boid:
pip install ray
The implemented boid is slow for large number of boids. The fast_boid is a try usign ray to make it faster. In current implementation, it doesn't make a huge difference though. If someone could figure out to make it faster just send me a push request.