"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> As luck would have it, the flocking concept I was already
> working on may prove a nice fit with the IRTC topic of
> Alien Invasion.
>
> I tried all kinds of exotic algorithms. Nothing looked better than a
> simple repulsion from the surface at several points ahead along the
> current velocity of the particle.

Very nice!

I think it might look better with some more motion though. They might look
more alive and more alien if they flew in and out amongst each other.

A suggestion: Make each boid attracted to both boid N+1 AND boid N-1. And
make the attraction very weak. That way you would probably get a more
"alive" formation, but still avoid a visible chain formation.

Greetings,

Rune
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