I have been working on an animation system that has a bunch of swarming
"bugs" zooming around and not hitting each other.  I thought that
instead of an animation with each instantaneous position displayed, I
could make all positions displayed at once.

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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
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> I have been working on an animation system that has a bunch of swarming
> "bugs" zooming around and not hitting each other.  I thought that
> instead of an animation with each instantaneous position displayed, I
> could make all positions displayed at once.

  If it were all a single white nylon color this would be a picture of
what my wife does every time I take her fishing with me - in macro close
up. Might have a nice spaghetti algorithm going there as well. :)

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Animate it :)
just rotate the mess of cables, round 360 deg or something, this is once
when i simple anim will look stunning, nice one :)

Rick
Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590"@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
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>I have been working on an animation system that has a bunch of swarming
>"bugs" zooming around and not hitting each other.  I thought that
>instead of an animation with each instantaneous position displayed, I
>could make all positions displayed at once.
>

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See my "boids" animaiton on pov.bin.animations 03/05/99, with code!!.

That animation entry was a bunch of cones moving around.  Other
possibilities include an animation of these cables growing, etc.
I have since, BTW, come up with a true 'flocking' animation with obstacle
avoidance, as opposed to a bug-swarming algorithm , but will hold off until
the IRTC.

Rick wrote:

> Animate it :)
> just rotate the mess of cables, round 360 deg or something, this is once
> when i simple anim will look stunning, nice one :)

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