clainstone
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:21AM (#50053126)
Hi, you even ported the hawks and the flocks function. Thanks for the credit!
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:17AM (#50053094)
Thanks, I appreciated your analysis. By the way, Reynolds has been credited in the README since its first version. I first heard of his boids in an introductory AI course (multi-agent systems, search algorithms, adversarial search, CSP, planning, etc.) and I was immediately fascinated by the algorithm
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:12AM (#50053054)
They landed two hours before your comment: cbirds --3d in 1.7.0
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:05PM (#50049517)
I've never played xroach, but you can make the birds escape by pointing at the flock with the cursor
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:59PM (#50037116)
Thanks, I have a local branch where I'm working on a 3D version with a single flock, it should land in a few days
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:13PM (#50036675)
Thanks, glad you like it!
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:05PM (#50036620)
The first commits are from September 2025, when agents were far less capable than now. Later I decided to use AI to implement some features.
As for the value: exploring ideas, techniques and features that would have been impossible to explore completely by hand (if you have a life), and a final artifact that is cool and pleasant to watch in your terminal.
Re:Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:57PM (#50036556)
Hi, I'm the creator. Not at all: I started this project completely by hand about a year ago, the first commit is from September 2025, you can check. Then I chose to speed up some features with automatic programming, otherwise I wouldn't have had the time