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Ben Eater's flocking simulation with the three rules exposed as sliders, so you can break the flock deliberately.
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Boids sits in Science Toys under Learn, filed as instant.
About this category: Simulations you can meddle with: orbits, evolution, chemistry, cellular automata. Understanding through interference rather than through reading.
Yes. Boids is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Boids without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Boids as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
A stocked chemistry bench in the browser where you can mix reagents and get it badly wrong at no cost.
Interactive models of what complexity science likes best — epidemics, flocking, synchronisation, forest fires.
Home of Conway's Game of Life — pattern archive, wiki and a board for setting your own cells running.
An explorable on how ideas and riots spread through a social network, with the contagion thresholds under your control.
The screensaver logo in full screen, with a counter for how many times it has hit the corner while you waited.
Brown bears standing in an Alaskan waterfall catching salmon in mid-air, live from Katmai, and the reason Fat Bear Week exists.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Open-city driving with traffic and no mission attached, for when you want to obey a speed limit in peace.
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