boids/agents in grasshopper

http://dimitrie.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/grasshopper-boidsagents/

Call them what you will, but there's been a huge hype about them some time ago.

Grasshopper's scripting capabilites are now a huge super cool feature, especially if you're coding in visual studio (c#) and then pasting the shit or making dlls. I did this some time ago when i suddenly realized that you can declare your own static variables inside scripting nodes (and these guys hold up their values during the updating procedure). And the vector math is already there too.

This is an implementation based on Craig Reynolds's neurons, and a little bit on Daniel Shiffman's processing example (which was updated and used some time ago for this.

Now, if somebody will be nice and implement some collision detection...

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Comment by Andrei Hakhovich on April 9, 2011 at 11:08pm: WOW! thanks for sharing!

Comment by Dimitrie Stefanescu on November 8, 2009 at 11:44pm: thanks guys. I will fix the link on my blog soon(ish) and i will also post the collision avoidance version (which actually required a glorious extra of 20 lines of code). cheers :)

Comment by Wan Da on November 7, 2009 at 9:47am: very useful and meaningful for me!!!
THX a lot!

Comment by Tudor Cosmatu on November 7, 2009 at 9:42am: very cool!!
cheers ;)

Comment by Benjamin Golder on October 24, 2009 at 3:48am: amazing!!

Comment by Dimitrie Stefanescu on October 20, 2009 at 9:19am: it's already there... so stay tuned.

Comment by enrique soriano on October 20, 2009 at 3:48am: Holly lamb!.. excellent use of Visual studio...
collision avoidance feature will be supreme