Behavioral Animation (Locust)

Just though i would share with you my latest project. i am calling it LOCUST. it is a behavioral animation pluging that uses craig reynolds boids as a model. i have a long way to go but i should have something in a few weeks for everyone to try.

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on May 25, 2010 at 2:24pm

Thats a totally rad name for a totally rad plugin!

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on May 25, 2010 at 2:34pm

Sounds great! Could you include predator/prey dynamics too ?

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 25, 2010 at 2:39pm

preditor/ prey is in the list of the initial behaviors. below is the initial list of behaviors i will be including

Seek and Flee
Pursue and Evade
Wander
Surface Wander
Arrival
Obstacle Avoidance
Containment
Wall Following
Path Following
Flow Field Following

Crowd Path Following
Leader Following
Unaligned Collision Avoidance
Queuing

Permalink Reply by Vittorio Menna on May 25, 2010 at 3:02pm

robert i really enjoyed your minimal surface component... it sounds like i m gonna like your new one even more! thanx!

Permalink Reply by Tudor Cosmatu on May 25, 2010 at 3:37pm

really nice! can t wait for it to come out! :)

Permalink Reply by Tuan N. Tran on May 25, 2010 at 5:17pm

very exciting. can't wait for the release!

Permalink Reply by Rodrigo Medina on May 25, 2010 at 9:03pm

This is Awesome do you have a website were we can see updates , congratullations!!

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 26, 2010 at 6:31am

i will be posting updates on my site. www.cerver.org > Projects > Locust

Permalink Reply by Andrea Graziano on May 26, 2010 at 12:11am

really interesting!

Permalink Reply by Paolo Cappelletto on May 26, 2010 at 2:58am

.. is becoming harder to find time to follow all these ideas. Good work.

Permalink Reply by Boris Yundelson on May 26, 2010 at 10:21am

agreed, theres so much being developed, i wish i was paid to just explore, that be great

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 28, 2010 at 8:54am

i agree with that. the "addon" section is ok but there need to be a better page for additions/scripts. i think a page like processing has (http://processing.org/reference/libraries/) that puts the additions into categories and then has a small description and link to more info.