Boid

Boid An autonomous agent that behaves like a simplified bird but will display flocking patterns in the presence of other boids.
Boolean Taking only 0/1, true/false, yes/no values.

ECHO, BOID, and SWARM) most closely resemble biological systems. Individual agents have their own copies of behavioral code "genomes" that let them individually perceive the local environment, evaluate the input, ...

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He credits Craig Reynolds, a pioneer of agent modeling and three-dimensional computer animation, for the 1987 discovery that the complex choreography of a flock requires that each bird (or 'boid,' as Reynolds called them) follow just three simple ...

See also: Agent, Simulation, Complex system, Artificial intelligence, Chaos