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Boids

artificial life program, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, which simulates the flocking behaviour of birds
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Boids

Summary

Boids ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (618 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Boids is credited with the discovery of Craig Reynolds[2].
  • bird is named after Boids[3].
  • Boids's subclass of is recorded as generative systems[4].
  • Boids's has use is recorded as computer graphics[5].
  • Boids's Commons category is recorded as Boids[6].
  • Boids's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1986-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • Boids's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0245_2[8].
  • Boids's facet of is recorded as swarm intelligence[9].
  • Boids's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 78775877[10].

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Works and Contributions

Boids is credited with the discovery of Craig Reynolds[2].

Why It Matters

Boids ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (618 views/month).[1] Boids has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

computer graphics Craig Reynolds

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Q28315663. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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