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  Re: A POV game--CSG football  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 5 Feb 1999 21:32:05
Message: <36bba9a5.0@news.povray.org>
In both CSG football, and in simulation of a flock of birds, you would be
concerned with collision avoidance.  The quarterback doesn't want to collide
with opposing defensive back and every bird wants to avoid a midair collision.

portelli wrote:

> I thought boids was a way to model bird light or other swarms of
> objects.  I know they used boids in making those Disney movies with all
> of the horseback riders, Mulan I think and in Lion King with buffalo or
> something.
>
> Jerry Stratton wrote:
> >
> > In article <36b3249b.0@news.povray.org>, "Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> > >Is there some way to use povray to play some kind of game?  Something
> > >like a battle of macros which is something like CSG football?
> >
> > Sounds cool--look up something called "boids" on the search engines (or
> > possible DejaNews). There are at least a few people looking into this sort
> > of thing in animation.
> >
> > Jerry


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