Re:The Rules of the Swarm... on slashdot. (Score 1)

I've recently been looking into boids. Such simple rules, but yet the behaviour is so complex.

I think the actual boid rules are:

Rule 1: Don't overcrowd near-by boids
Rule 2: Move closer to near-by boids
Rule 3: Move in the general direction of the other boids

At least they're the 3 rules I used to implement boids in Python, using PyGame.

It was great fun to write, and you can easily tweak the values to get quite different results.