NonHuman Creatures C. W. Reynolds Flocks, Herds, and Schools : A Distributed Behavioral Model in Pro

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Non-Human CreaturesC. W. ReynoldsFlocks,
Herds, and Schools A Distributed Behavioral
Modelin Proc. of SIGGRAPH 87, 25-34 (1987)

• March 16, 2004
• Sung Yong SHIN
• Computer Science Div.

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• Flocks, Herds, and Schools A Distributed
  Behavioral Model

Non-human Creatures
Not centralized A bird chooses its own behavior
by itself.
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• Animation by simulation
• What?
• Polarized, non-colliding aggregate motion of
  boids
• (individual behaviors interactions)
• How?
• Particle Systems
• Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm
• behaviors
• internal state
• process
• message passing communications

actors (virtual computers)