Flocking Boids

Continuous Delivery for v5

2017-06-23T12:15:00+00:00

TL;DR: checkout flocking boids wip for v5

Journey to VR

In this version I would like to integrate VR into the current experience.

This is inspired by this video on the Google Chrome Developers channel.

Will start with the web-vr polyfill mentioned in the above vid and take it from there.

Flocking Boids v4

2017-06-23T12:15:00+00:00

TL;DR: checkout boids flocking v4

Done in this version

Loading has been reworked to take advantage of async / await instead of callbacks
There is now a loading screen that animates while the resources for the main scene are downloading and being setup.
Fixed debug lines.
Animation has been removed for now as it was slowing things down and not adding much value.

Boids Flock Forever!

2017-06-23T12:15:00+00:00

TL;DR: checkout boids flocking v3

Have added visual features like new style lighting and fullscreen mode.

Boids will also now turn around if they get to far away to keep the simulation going.

This is the result!

First Person Flocking Boids!

2017-05-12T12:30:00+00:00

TL;DR: checkout boids flocking v2

After playing around for a bit I discovered that the flocking looked much better from underneath so I thought of creating a simple scene where you stand in a field and watch boids flock overhead.

This is the result!

Welcome to Flocking Boids!

2017-05-07T11:00:00+00:00

TL;DR: checkout boids flocking

I have always been interested in emergent behavior. For me an interesting way to explore this is through computer simulation.

I have also been following OpenGL and how it has become ubiquitos over time to the point where it can now be found in phones and in the browser.

Give all of the above I thought a good way to pull all this together was to implment flocking in the browser as it makes it easy to see results and share them.