[PD] Flock of birds

Piotr Majdak piotr at majdak.com
Fri May 6 13:22:35 CEST 2005


Jamie Bullock wrote:
> The PSO (Particle Swarm Optimizer) object by Ben Bogart kind of does
> this. It can be found in the CVS under externals/bbogart/pso. It is
> really designed for solving optimisation problems, but it is based on
> the biological model of a flocking behaviour. You set a target as an n-
> dimensional vector and n solutions will "flock" through the space
> following their neighbours and the optimal solution.


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> On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:42 -0400, Thomas Ouellet Fredericks wrote:
> 
>>I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions on how to get a
>>"flock of birds" behavior in Pure Data on XP? No the graphics, just
>>the positions.


Read the software protocol and try [comport].

Piotr Majdak




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