{"id":57,"date":"2012-07-19T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-07-20T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T20:12:30","slug":"from-boids-to-documents-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhuerta.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/from-boids-to-documents-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"From Boids to Documents \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s some information on the projects as promised<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Summer 2010 I was approached by my HCI instructor, I have already told him about my interest in the area and that I feel good to go and start working on some projects. My instructor expertise relies on Data\u00a0 and Scientific Visualization and he had something beign cooked at the moment. A fellow student was working in a independent agents program that visualizes several objects in a 3D space with a very dynamic behavior inspired by nature: they tend to group and navigate in this space just like flocks of birds, swarm of insects and banks of fishes do, and they can react to their environment in different ways.<\/p>\n

This \u201cBoids\u201d algorithm<\/a>\u00a0is very popular and is used in several graphical applications like videogames and movies due to its approximation to the real behavior of these animals without necessarily simulating the way nature does, all with very simple algorithm that is not heavy computationally speaking. Being it for real time or pre rendered presentations the technique really outstanding.<\/p>\n