👨‍💻🤔 Ah yes, because nothing screams "cutting-edge innovation" like using sub-millisecond functional quadtrees to simulate digital birds in 2025. Clearly, the world has been waiting for a generous representation of #Boids to revolutionize... #online demos? 🐦📉
https://www.lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/flocking-quadtrees #cuttingedge #innovation #digitalbirds #simulation #techtrends #demos #HackerNews #ngated

quite chuffed with my xaio / lorawan / raspberry pi zero / tiny usb mic / acoupi setup. Although there defitely aren't any curlews #boids

Boidsの布教 - 3つの規則で群れを作る
https://qiita.com/Hiroto_2402/items/f7db1878fb76fff30006?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #Boids

A couple of years ago I saw a band I thought was interesting. Bought their album and listened to it casually but never really paid close attention.

Today I was bored of my other music and decided to give it another listen. And, WOW! They have some really good songs on there!

My favorite track is probably Season of loss. The lyrics are sad AF. The music has a certain whimsical nostalgia to it. In contrast to the rest of the album which is more up-beat. I particularly love the cymbals.

If you're looking for something new, I highly recommend Boids. https://boids.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled

#music #poppunk #punk #punkrock #boids #indierock

Ready for Pelikan Hub next month...

Hope that this time next year, one of the black ones will no longer be black.

#fountainpens
#sexy
#boids

Poetry with Boids! New piece out combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive poem forming into different visual and semantic structures. Preview below, live link here: https://ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

#poetry #art #generative #boids #alife

Cardinals and Blue Jays are competing in the World Series of peanut-gathering. Blue Jays are winning due to sheer numbers. (We have a gang that shows up every morning. They are hilarious.)

#birds #boids

A poster for a 90 seconds film about a dream. I've made it to take part in the "Dream Animation Festival".

#mywork #art #animation #dream #blender #3D #pointcloud #boids #particles

More #Actiniaria progress: Added a soft global constraint to create more of a (macro)organism feel w/ a sense of belonging and fuzzy boundary. Also slowly updating the behavior/relationship matrix between the six different types now, to create varying temporary alliances...

(Note: Sadly Firefox doesn't respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please download or use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)

#GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #ThingUmbrella #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL

Found some time last night to implement multi-behaviors and I'm very excited about where this is going... 😍 The video shows 6 different types interacting with (and avoiding) each other. Next step is to vary the behavior matrix over time, causing changing alliances and breakup behaviors...

See #Actiniaria for more context...

(Note: Sadly Firefox doesn't respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please download or use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)

#GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #ThingUmbrella #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL

Similar to my #LinearMemory piece from last year (check the hashtag for references), these current #Actiniaria explorations make me fully appreciate all the research, efforts and supporting hardware behind the DCI-P3 & Rec.2020 color spaces. The intensity (and subtlety) of some colors & combinations are just stunning (to me), and I don't mean this in any ableist way (just enjoying whilst I still can!)...

Also still amazed that something like this runs at a smooth 60fps @ 2160x2160 UHD resolution on a mobile device with a just Snapdragon 2 chipset... As part of my advisory role @ day job, over the past few months I've been tasked with optimizing artworks for almost a dozen generative/algorithmic artists, often achieving 2-4x framerate improvements... Very much feeling a longer blog post re: code craft vs code art coming up, hoping to connect them more...

"To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program." — Alan Perlis

(Note: Sadly Firefox does not seem to respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please download or use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)

#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL

Been working on various shader & behavior update and options for #Actiniaria... it's all starting to come together! 🤩

(Note: Sadly Firefox does not seem to respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)

#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL

Slowly narrowing down color choices... Here's a contact sheet of some more theme candidates. Still going through a few hundred more I've pre-selected so far, and these ones here are all using the same background color...

#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color

Btw. Here're some more collected links to earlier experiments/stages of development (from the last 1.5 years) — If anything, this all is yet another example of my personal slow-cook art-making/revisiting approach... 😅

SDF obstacles (static & animated):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111698367393819716
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111698918722774094

Path attraction/following:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111704122960594951
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111704168442616187

Boids vs. Voronoi:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111720368699392895

Visualizing motion/direction vectors:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111688835639715011

#HowToThing mini tutorial:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111308439597090930

#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color #Video #TypeScript

Work in progress...

Finally finding some time to continue working on my earlier https://thi.ng/boids experiments, now also using WebGL instancing and floating point render textures for super-smooth blending/trails to create aesthetics reminiscent of sea anemones...

(Update: I've decided on the beautiful-sounding and fitting #Actiniaria as project title...)

(Note: Sadly Firefox does not seem to respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)

#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL

#Boids + #Drones + #Fireworks... I'm sure that equals something

Boids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids

Some #boids for the #ebitengine holiday hack... maybe they'll get used.

#ehh

Grazie a @ferdinky possiamo provare un'implementazione dei famosi "boids" sul Commodore 64. Il programma, realizzato in Simon's BASIC, non può rivaleggiare graficamente con altre versioni di questi "steering behaviors" che si sono succedute in quasi 40 anni, ma è comunque un'ottima occasione per tornare a riparlarne. #commodore64 #simonsbasic #boids #retrocomputing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TJYyHNMgo

@DamonCrowley (blows out breath as if gut-punched)... ooooohhhhhh... ahh... (closes eyes)(shakes head). uff da.
#blown #away #boids

Artificial Life Newsletter, May edition is out!

This time we brought the review of a book about solarpunk creatures, as well as a reminder about the solarpunk conference.

We also got reviews for three fiction books that describe unique and different ways of life.

On the video side, we got a link to a video about boids and self driving cars, also links to a workshop on Universal Communication by Crosslabs.

This and more here:

https://alife-newsletter.github.io/Newsletter/edition_016.html

#solarpunk #ArtificialLife #boids #aliens