RBOIDS - Boids in Rust

This is an experiment to simulate a school of fish in Rust by implementing the boids algorithm. It is wholly inspired by Sebastian Lague's - Coding adventure with boids.

The experiment has been successful in it's object to,

1. Explore and learn Rust
2. Get dirty with graphics and graphics mathematics
3. Be awed by procedural generation

However as I proceeded through the experiment I felt that this deserved more attention. In turn, it got absorbed into a blog that walks you through making simulating your own school of boids.

First feast your eyes on this beauty.

The framerate and resolution took a hit in trying to display it here. Here's a better version. Or You can clone this repo and cargo run to see the simulation in a much better quality.

The blog is written as a three part series.

1. A fistful of boids - Setting up the scene and basic animation
2. For a few boids more - Generating boids and obstacle avoidance
3. The school, the boid and the Rusty - Simulating a flock, parallelism and benchmarking performance

It is also divided into ten tagged stages to mark milestones. You can begin from anyone of them but I would suggest starting from the first post in the series. It should not take more than 1.5 hours to code through the whole series.

I'm a beginner at Rust so I will appreciate any suggestions for improving the code. Any questions and issues related to the blog are also welcome, just file an issue or mail me.

Troubleshooting

Here I try to address some of the common errors people face when trying to run the project.

• failed to run custom build command for alsa-sys v0.1.2: This error occours beacuse the ala-sys dependency requires an external package for compiling correctly. Refer here to solve the issue