Starlings Murmuration Simulation Software

This repository holds the mathematical model and source files of an Starlings Murmuration Simulation software as a part of COP290 Course at IIT Delhi.
Team Members: Shreshth Tuli (2016CS10680), Sankalan Pal Chowdhury (2016CS10701)

Aim

The package is supposed to have the following functionalities:

We should be able to interactively add New Starlings to a Flock with variable attributes
Given a Flock, we should be able to simulate their movement vis-a-vis various Internal
and External Forces.
We should also be able to calculate the instantaneous power and force on each Starling,
and check if these values are in a sane range to prove the correctness of our simulation

Structure

The package structure for the software package is as follows:

FlockSim

|

|-> bin

|-> release

|-> doc

|-> forms

|-> include

|-> screen

|-> src

|-> lib

|-> conf

|-> features

|-> modules

|-> Plugins

|-> Win32

Following is the description of the directories:

bin : Object files for the executable
release : Contains the main executable 
doc : Documentation and related files
forms : Contains the form descriptors for UI purposes
include : Contains all header files for the project
screen : some screens showing different features
src : source (C++, XML) files developed for the software
lib : contains standard libraries of OpenGL and Qt for UI

Qt and OpenGL

The Model has been developed using Qt and OpenGL libraries. These are not required to be installed, as the executable is statically linked and deployment ready. This is not a cross-platform software and is built to run on Windows.

Compilation and execution instructions

In the top directory run:

make

(In case this does not work, statically linked executable in Release directory can be used)