Boids
Sign in to savethumb|Boids example Boids is an artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds, and related group motion. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. The name "boid" corresponds to a shortened version of "bird-oid object", which refers to a bird-like object, as well as referencing the stereotypical New York pronunciation of 'bird' as . Reynolds' boid model is one example of a larger general concept, for which many other variations have been developed since. The closely related wo
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- Named after
- bird
- Has use
- computer graphics
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- discoverer or inventor
- Craig Reynolds
- time of discovery or invention
- 1986-00-00
- Commons category
- Boids
- facet of
- swarm intelligence
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Boids est le nom d'un programme informatique de vie artificielle, développé par Craig W. Reynolds en 1986, simulant le comportement d'une nuée d'oiseaux en vol. Le mot boid est par ailleurs une contraction de bird-oid (qui a la forme d'un oiseau).
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