Flight Simulation of Flocking Geese Using Particle Set Animation

Cathryn J Polinsky '99

What's a boid?


Reynolds uses the term boid to represent objects in his behavorial particle system.

The term, boid, was first created to describe these simulated bird-oid objects but it is now used generically to describe any animal (from fish to dinosaur) in a behavioral particle system.

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