Boids Unlimited

An implementation of Boids

• Hosts a MTKView within SwiftUI using an UIViewRepresentable
• Updates and draws the Boids using a MetalKit compute kernel shader

Simulator.Screen.Recording.-.iPad.Air.5th.generation.-.2022-03-22.at.20.47.46.mp4

References and Sources

Inspiriations for starting this project:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpc7u3331oQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqtqltqcQhw

Original Boids papers and reference:

• http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
• http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dt/siggraph97-course/cwr87/

I based my implementation off this code:

• https://github.com/womogenes/Boids

Extremely Helpful Articles on MetalKit:

• https://metalbyexample.com/modern-metal-1/
• https://metalkit.org/2017/11/30/working-with-particles-in-metal-part-3/
• https://eugenebokhan.io/introduction-to-metal-compute-part-two
• https://github.com/RedQueenCoder/Metal-Learning-Projects

Screenshots

GitHub

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