More recently, I’ve rewritten this script for a different purpose. If each frame of the animation is saved and then segmented as if they were CT imagery, very interesting geometries can be created. The boids can be controlled in a variety of ways, i.e. in relation to each other, as a function of their absolute coordinates, or as a function of time. By altering their “personal space” vector over time, the boids can be induced to diverge and then converge to create a sort of tree/capillary/heat exchange geometry.
Imagine time is the X-axis here.
And here is the 2D animation that produced the structure.