week05-steering

Autonomous Agents

Tutorials and Resources

• Kadenze Session 3: p5.js
• Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge: p5.js
• Perlin Noise Flow Field Coding Challenge: p5.js
• Chapter 6 text: Processing
• Chapter 6 videos: Processing
• Processing chapter 6 example code
• p5.js chapter 6 example code

Supplemental Reading / Viewing

• Reas Process Compendium
• Craig Reynolds' Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters
• Braitenberg Vehicles

Finding closest point on line and dot product

• Dot Product and Scalar Projection video -- uses Processing
• BetterExplained/ Dot Product + Finding The "Normal"
• Finding the closest point on a curve.

QuadTree Optimization

• QuadTree Data Structure (Wikipedia)
• QuadTree JS Library in Progress
• p5 web editor example
• QuadTree Coding Challenge 1
• QuadTree Coding Challenge 2
• QuadTree Coding Challenge 3

Code from in class

• Particle Burst

Assignment

• Simulation Project

Web Editor Example Links

• 6.1: Seeking a target
• 6.2: Arrive steering behavior
• 6.3: “Stay within walls” steering behavior
• 6.4: Flow field following
• 6.5: Simple path following
• 6.6: Path following
• 6.7: Group behavior: Separation
• 6.8: Combining steering behaviors: Seek and separate
• 6.9: Flocking
• Exercise 6.13: Crowd Path Following