X B O I D S  -  boids for xscreensaver  -  2002 11 04
by Todd Warner <taw@pobox.com>
Public Key: http://www.pobox.com/~taw/taw-pubkey.asc   1024D/2C8A7691   0212 8177 4194 F27C 74EE 35A0 A03A 7167 2C8A 7691


This is the "official" webpage of xBoids, the boids program (flocking, herding, schooling simulation) written in C for xscreensaver for Red Hat Linux (currently only Red Hat Linux v8.0).

This nifty little xscreensaver hack was written for only one reason: I thought it was cool. It's relatively simple and I plan to make it much better in the future. Publishing it in RPM format was a big step needed to get me to finish the damn thing. Maybe someday I will! ;) I gladly accept feedback.

I apologize for this website. I will create a nicer site when I have more time (which I don't have).


DOWNLOADS:

RPMs (Red Hat Linux v8.0 - signed with my key):

f588d9865fcf7c53872f2c5fae35dfe2         xscreensaver-4.05-6_taw0.i386.rpm
4188aa1765b9d8e050e8cba4a3233a99         xscreensaver-4.05-6_taw0.src.rpm


c187f8ce40bc9a523efd7c128f33ee91         gle-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm
5b7991ce005398ee581d45e0b595b0d0         gle-devel-3.0.7-1.i386.rpm
31b6795fde1bcc2965ac3900550e0624         gle-3.0.7-1.src.rpm

You can view the code (and README) at: NOT READY YET


Conrad Parker's boid pseudocode can be found at:
http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html
Conrad Parker's boid page:
http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/index.html
Craig Reynolds, the original boid author:
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

If you have any patches, additions or whatnot, please feel free to email me: taw@pobox.com

More links:

Fireflies - OpenGL flocking. Very cool! Probably even cooler than mine. Maybe I will even package it someday.


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