Jon A. Cruz <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in article
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> me wrote:
> > 
> > Does anybody have any idea how to do a 'flocking' animation (like a
flock of
> > birds, or a bunch of ants [antz])
> > 
> > I think that PoV is advanced enough to do it, but I haven't really
started
> > trying yet, so if anybody has any ideas (or examples)  I would really
> > appreciate it!
> > 
> > TIA!
> 
> Try
> 
> http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Artificial_Life/Flocking/
> 
> And specifically http://hmt.com/cwr/boids.html
> The latter is the Boids info by Craig Reynolds. Really good stuff.

'me',

	You'll probably want to look at
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/ and
http://hmt.com/cwr/nobump/nobump.html (Both by Craig Reynolds). BTW. I've
been thinking about writing a simple boids POV 3.1 include file, if I get
it done would you be interested in a copy ?

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