Call them what you will, but there’s been a huge hype about them some time ago.
Grasshopper’s scripting capabilites are now a huge super cool feature, especially if you’re coding in visual studio (c#) and then pasting the shit or making dlls. I did this some time ago when i suddenly realized that you can declare your own static variables inside scripting nodes (and these guys hold up their values during the updating procedure). And the vector math is already there too.
This is an implementation based on Craig Reynolds‘s neurons, and a little bit on Daniel Shiffman’s processing example (which was updated and used some time ago for this.
Now, if somebody will be nice and implement some collision detection…
PS: I will upload the def. soonish (i have to clean it up a bit first). Ok i didn’t clean it up; here’s the link.
Here’s a new 10 day link: http://dl.transfer.ro/boidsT-Transfer_RO-16Nov-ad56f6.zip
Final link, stable and sound: http://improved.ro/Grasshopper/boidsTCAV.zip
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No words for describing the party inside my head – just stunning work mate! And exactly what we talked about earlier this year
great.p
thanks pat, i really appreciate. just as a side question, what would you use these guys for? only thing that comes to my mind is making holes in a solid or something of the like of what martin tamke showed us @ the TU berlin gig, with the white hanging thing in the hall (if u remember)… ah well, we’ll see.
Dunno yet maybe that requires some gin tonics before
Yeah if I’m not mistaken I can remember Martin Tamke’s work from CITA but basically they were experimenting and just lofting the stuff. Simply all kinds of tectonic manipulation / traffic knot distribution / orientation systems come to my mind. Also depends on the digital output of ur “ants”. Possibly we could use their trails (for attracting geometry)?
I wanna play with it.
This is amazing! check this link http://www.vimeo.com/785082 and thank for your sharing.
yep, the creatures look great
thanks for the thumbs up.
Really great work. Very nice
Nice work! Obstacle avoidance & collision detection could add some architectural ‘sense’.
yep, as soon as i have some spare time i’m gonna work on it. If i’m lucky, it could come easy – the sdk has the functions i want (hopefully computationally cheap as well). PS nice works on your website!
the link is broken… can you replace it????
pleeeeeeeaaaassssseeeee…
Congrats…really nice. I’m intrigued in how you achieved this in grasshopper.
Is there any chance you can share the definition? maybe you can post it in
http://www.rhinoscript.org/
http://www.rhinoscript.org/grasshopper
I would be grateful if you could share you grasshopper definition, i’m planning on conducting a thesis implementing swarm logic to urbanism breaking from notions of master planning thus introducing a true urban ligament based on networks of local interactions, this would be an amazing asset to my research and of course you will get the credit you deserve. See my studio website, its early days yet…
http://ds13.uforg.net/09-10-atmospheric-disturbances/
Please let me know, maybe one of my tutors can help me develop collision detection/object avoidance parameters…
whooops – link is indeed broken. shit! i will fix it asap – got a project due friday, hopefully i’ll find time for this earlier. now, what were my ftp credentials…
ps i have collision avoidance going on already, but i didn’t release the sketch yet since i didn’t do any nice advertising images for+with it. drop me a mail and i can send it to you.
Thank you v.much Dimitrie, hopefully i can evolve what you have already started…
Take care!
ueeei mate! stunning indeed! foarte fain!
tin minte ca au fost multe discutii si incercari de a face nice lill boids in GH. If i’d have 5 thumbs they’d be all up haha 
sarumana de laude. tre’ sa repar linku ala si sa pun si varianta cu collision detection.
si pe cand pe meleaguri?
haide spor
Hey Dimitrie – really inspiring work
.. How is that download link coming along, would be great to play with your definitions!
http://dl.transfer.ro/boidsT-Transfer_RO-16Nov-ad56f6.zip
Thanks
Really appreciate it.
FINAL LINK, SAFE AND SOUND: http://improved.ro/Grasshopper/boidsTCAV.zip
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Really great work. Very nice
thanks pat, i really appreciate.
How is that download link coming along, would be great to play with your definitions!
Thank you v.much Dimitrie, hopefully i can evolve what you have already starte
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