LaggyBird

Simple app that simulates bird flocks using the distributed behavioral model. Done following the paper: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/

Behavior

Each bird is described by position, orientation, speed vector and customizable FOV.

Three simple behaviors are available:

1. Collision avoidance - each bird tries to avoid collision with the closest birds
2. Direction matching - each bird tries to match own speed with the speed of all nearby neighbours
3. Flocking - each bird tries to keep closer to the center of the nearby flock

Each of these modes can be switched separately using hotkeys.

Hotkeys

• 'Esc' - exit app
• 'Space' - pause
• 'F1' - show / hide tooltip
• '~' - show metadata (FOV, direction, flock center, collisions avoidance weight)
• '1' - switch collision avoidance mode
• '2' - switch direction matching mode
• '3' - switch flocking mode
• '-' - decrease FOV
• '+' - increase FOV
• '0' - reset FOV

Used code

LaggyDx is used as a DirectX framework.
LaggySdk is used as an SDK framework.