Electro-Flock: Modelling Flocks using Simple Electro-Magnetism

Flocks are easy to model if you use physics instead of biology

Look - Its all done with magnets!

Electro-Flock is a simple flocking algorithm that relies only on Coulomb's Law, the single physical equation that describes how electrically charged particles interact. The project uses CoffeeScript, JQuery, HTML5 and Processing.js.

I started this project with the feeling that flocking algorithms were too specific. I wanted to see if I could write a really simply algorithm that didn't know it was meant to be a flocking algorithm. I had a feeling that electro-magnetism might just be the key to a really fundamental, self-organising flock. Was this feeling justified? -  Judge for yourself Play with the Electro-Flock Demo