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Boids: learning vector arithmetic through animation

Published: 12 August 2018 Publication History

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Boids is an excellent example of emergent behaviour. Coding some simple rules creates complex behaviour. The assignment consolidates students' learning of C++, OpenGL, GLM, and vector arithmetic. Students also learn about the careful balances that must be made to ensure that a simulation behaves in a realistic way.

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Tony Greening. 2000. Students seen flocking in programming assignments. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '00). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 93--96.
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Wayne Iba. 2008. There's something about AI exercises. In AAAI Spring Symposium: Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science. 44--49.
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Craig W Reynolds. 1987. Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model. In Computer Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 21. 25--34.

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      SIGGRAPH '18: ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Educator's Forum
      August 2018
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      ISBN:9781450358842
      DOI:10.1145/3215641
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      2. education
      3. graphics
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