{"id":45,"date":"2017-06-20T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=45"},"modified":"2017-06-20T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:19:06","slug":"boids","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=flocking-systems\/boids","title":{"rendered":"Boids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flocking system is comprised of a number of semi-autonomous agents which move together to form a flock. Because of the bird-like nature of these agents, the term <strong>boid<\/strong> (bird-oid) is often used to describe these individual flock members. This notion was first put forward in a paper by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red3d.com\/cwr\/\" target=\"blank\">Craig Reynolds<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red3d.com\/cwr\/papers\/1999\/gdc99steer.html\" target=\"blank\">\u201cSteering Behaviours for Autonomous Characters\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"doc_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/45\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/33"}],"next":[{"title":"Standard Flocking Behaviour","link":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/?docs=flocking-systems\/standard-flocking-behaviour","href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/documentation.particleflocker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}