Arrive Steering Behavior

Nature of Code Lesson #5.4
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It’s finally time for me to tackle a JavaScript (p5.js) implementation of the “arrival” steering behavior from Craig Reynolds’ 1999 paper Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters!

Topics

  • 0:00 - The moment you've been waiting for has arrived!
  • 0:17 - Review! Seek, flee, pursue, and evade.
  • 0:41 - Explain! What is the arrive behavior?
  • 1:01 - Explain! How is arrive different from seek?
  • 2:27 - Code! Creating the arrive method!
  • 5:24 - I'll refactor this now! Better variable names.
  • 6:04 - I'll refactor this now! Integrate arrive with the existing seek method.
  • 8:14 - What's next?
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