Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) In 1986 I made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. I called the generic simulated flocking creatures boids. The basic flocking model consists of three simple steering behaviors which describe how an individual boid maneuvers based on the positions and velocities its nearby flockmates: Each boid has direct access to the whole scene's geometric description, but flocking requires that it reacts only to flockmates within a certain small neighborhood around itself. The neighborhood is characterized by a distance (measured from the center of the boid) and an angle, measured from the boid's direction of flight.
A boid's neighborhood A slightly more elaborate behavioral model was used in the early experiments. Since 1987 there have been many other applications of the boids model in the realm of behavioral animation. Tim Blackwell. SwarmMusicImprovisedMusicWithMultiswarms.pdf (application/pdf Object) Swarming_and_Music.pdf (application/pdf Object) Improvisation. ComedySportz Austin performing a shortform game based on direction from the audience with the help of Red Dirt Improv; in this case spoofing a hard rock band performing a song made up on the stage Improvisation is a state of being and creating action without pre-planning. This can be when an individual or group is acting, dancing, singing, playing musical instruments, talking, creating artworks, problem solving, or reacting in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings.
This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or new ways to act. Skills and techniques[edit] The skills of improvisation can apply to many different abilities or forms of communication and expression across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines. Music[edit] A few pianists[who?] Theatre[edit] Dance[edit] Comedy[edit] Poetry[edit] Some of these forms also include humour.