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Program Announcements / Flocking Walkers Simulator (with source) -- Corrected Post

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kehagiat
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FLOcking Walkers (FLOW)

This is a simulator of human self-organized walkers who use local rules to develop flocking and other (hopefully) interesting behaviors. "Flocking" is here used in the sense of Boids-creator Craig Reynolds. A 3d visualization is used to present these behaviors. The main program (computation and visualization) has been written in the DarkBasic language.

This software has been tested and runs on WinXP, Win 7, Win 8. For comments and questions mail [email protected] .

Ath.Kehagias and L.Eleftheriou

PS to the FORUM ADMINISTRATOR: Dear Admin, I have posted on July 17th another announcement of this software but something has gone wrong with this post and I cannot access it any longer (in fact I think its contents have disappeared). Can you please delete this older post?

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kehagiat
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Oh, and some images



http://sourceforge.net/projects/flockingwalkers/?source=directory

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You might find some more interesting stuff by a guy known only to the forum as "Philip the Bear". We met up many years ago and I ended up talking to him again this week. One day I will persuade him to come back and share his knowledge again.

Anyway....here is his work on flocking, fleeing, seeking, arriving, pursuing, wandering and much more. It's based on the same work by Craig Reynolds.

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=68477&b=1

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I am very grateful for the link. I looked at it and obviously the Bear did a much more thorough job than I did.

Two remarks

1. The Bear is a lot closer to the Reynolds model. Specifically, his agents have mass and acceleration. I went for massless agents and constant velocity, mainly for simplicity. I think there is a certain advantage in this. I am currently mostly interested in producing "pretty videos" (there are some on YouTube, search "Flocking Walkers"). Did the Bear or somebody else produce similar videos? I would like to see them!

2. What would be reasonably useful is a dll that would make the (Bear and/or mine) functions EASILY available for DarkBasic coding (I mean as if they were regular DB functions). I do not plan to implement this (my native programming language is Matlab, DarkBasic is a sideshow) and I suspect the Bear didn't implement it either, but does such a thing exist in "DBspace"?

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I don't think a Dll exists anywhere, but Philip provided all of his source code in the hope that somebody would do something good with it. It looks like that might be you The mathematics are certainly too complicated for me.

I don't have DBPro on this laptop, but I'm sure his examples are all able to compile and run.

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I checked a couple of his examples and they do run fine.

Like I said DBPro, though a fine language, is not my main tool; so the "DBProSteer Library" is not a high priority. On the other hand, I am a professor, so I may be able to lure a student into this . At any rate the project is in the queue.

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thanks for making this

it will enhance how things will work in the games I have in mind

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