@explorables/horde_of_the_flies v1.1.4
Horde of the Flies
This explorable illustrates one of the most fundamental and simple models for swarming and collective behavior in animal populations: The Vicsek-Model. Individuals move around at constant speed and align their heading according to the mean heading of others in the vicinity.
The explorable is part of the Complexity Exporables Collection. For more information about the system and its behavior consult the explorable
Installation & Use
Out of the box you can use the explorable in a basic index.html file like this
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@explorables/horde_of_the_flies"></script>
</head>
<body class="avenir pa3 pa5-ns tj">
<div id="explorable_container"></div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
horde_of_the_flies.load("explorable_container")
</script>
</html>The header <script> tag loads the bundle, the <div> in the document is the container in which the explorable gets anchored when the function horde_of_the_flies.load() gets executed at the bottom. The load function needs the <div> container id as an agument.
Installing the whole package locally
Clone repository:
git clone https://github.com/dirkbrockmann/horde_of_the_flies.gitGo to the directory, install, build and show using npm:
cd horde_of_the_fliesnpm installnpm run buildnpm run show
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
