Implementation of Boids

Boids is an example of emergent behavior; that is, the complexity of Boids arises from the interaction of individual agents (the boids, in this case) adhering to a set of simple rules. The rules applied in the simplest Boids world are as follows:

• separation: steer to avoid crowding local flockmates
• alignment: steer towards the average heading of local flockmates
• cohesion: steer to move towards the average position (center of mass) of local flockmates

JS version

Uses basic web worker for computation, w/ OffscreenCanvas to draw on the canvas off of the main thread.

Requires no transpilation and can be served directly. Entry point (to be set in index.html) is /js/script.js

Rust version

Uses Web Assembly for computation, written in Rust. Also uses a Broadcast Channel for basic interop between JS worker and WASM thread. And imports the web-sys crate to call canvas methods efficiently.

Needs to be compiled

wasm-pack build --target web

Entry point (to be set in index.html) is /js/wasm.js