Flocking Simulation

Author

Ioana Munteanu

Demo

Installation

Download Processing.
Clone the repository.
Open it in Processing and press 'Run'.

Description

I designed a boids simulation that represents a school of fish in the ocean. Each fish was designed as a green triangle over a yellow triangle with an ellipse for the eye. The simulation will start with 25 fish and will generate 3 more fish per frame until it reaches 50.
The user can turn on an off:
- alignment (steer towards the average heading of local flockmates)
- cohesion (steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates)
- separation (steer to avoid crowding local flockmates)

User interaction

mouse left click: add more fish (up to 100)
S: separation feature on
s: separation feature off
C: cohesion feature on
c: cohesion feature off
A: alignment feature on
a: alignment feature off
F: 10 of the fish will follow the mouse and will disappear when then reach it (follow feature)
f: follow feature off
d: double the speed of the fish up to a maximum speed
h: reduce the speed of the fish by 2

Programming language

Processing

Libraries

peasy: PeasyCam provides a dead-simple mouse-driven camera for Processing.