Architectural Speculation of MAS
A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or a monolithic system to solve. (Source : Wikipedia)
They obey the principles of swarm intelligence where a population decentralized individual agents undergo local interactions creating a complex global system. Such behaviors are evident in phenomena like flock of birds, slime mold etc.
Cohesion Separation
Alignment
The agents in a environment interact with their surrounding agents and undergo basic behaviors or rules as applied in a Boids Algorithm (Craig Reynolds, 1986).
1. Cohesion - Agents within a threshold steering towards each other.
2. Separation - Agents within a threshold steering away from each other.
3. Alignment - Agents within a threshold steering to align with each other.
Agent Curves Trial
The agents upon interactions with their respective neighbors move from one position to another. The acceleration of an agent varies with respect to the magnitude of each behavioral force (Separation, Cohesion etc.). The positions of agents at each iteration of movement are interpolated to form curve trails for the agents.
Stigmergy - Following Curve Trails
Curve Bundling
The agents may also undergo various secondary behaviors such as Stigmergy i.e. an agent following the direction of the cure trails of a neighbor agent within a threshold. Curve Trails can also bundle with surrounding curve trails i.e. neighboring curve trails moving towards each other .
Agent Curves Trial
Agent Body Rigging on Curve Trails
Architectural Speculation
The agent curves are further be articulated with certain bodies (or meshes) which distribute along the agent curves while adapting to the curvature of the base geometry. The agent bodies rigged onto the curves create intricate and complex patterns rendering a strange emergent quality to the overall form.
Additional Agent Curve Trial