CS-453: Day 10

Activities

• Introduction to flocking behavior
• Class discussion of Craig Reynolds' article entitled Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters.
• Boid demo
• Reference page to boids
• Boid Applets

• James Kennedy and Russell Eberhart: Particle Swarm Optimization
• A PSO applet.
  Presentation by Michael Wollowski
  Visualisations

Resources

• Prey by Michael Chrichton
• Emergence by Steven Johnson
• Anthill by Edward Wilson, a renowed biologist from Harvard. This book won the Pulitzer prize.
• Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley, a biologist at Cornell. This is a more technical book, but very accessible to you.