Follow Me 2 (Phase 4)
Project: Emergence and Navigating Space

After narrowing down my complicated first idea, I came up with a more simpler, refined processing code that depicted the Boids concept by Craig Reynolds. My rough edit compromised of circular shaped lines moving in a random fashion where other lines showed the distance when the circular lines would eventually intersect. That code was not so great. So I came across this boid demo and altered it. As you move your mouse around, the circular shapes try to follow you and congregate towards the lines that act the strings that “attach” each circle. When you stop moving the mouse, the circles eventually flock to the tip of the line, however they continue to flock in a constrained position.

I tried to create a quicktime movie, but it doesn't seem to work. The movie that it creates always reads as invalid.

The working prototype is located here
http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Winter08/152A/projects/tanya/

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