# Boids Ecosystem — component for particles & physics (react)

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Hundreds of tiny coloured triangles flocking across a dark canvas like a school of fish

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add https://animata.design/r/background/boids-ecosystem.json`
- **Registry:** animata · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT
- **Docs and preview:** https://animata.design/docs/background/boids-ecosystem
- **Source:** https://github.com/codse/animata/blob/main/animata/background/boids-ecosystem.tsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-animata-boids-ecosystem.mp4?v=111133 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Animata))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Boids Ecosystem from Animata (https://animata.design/docs/background/boids-ecosystem, MIT) as a living generative background behind a title or data story. It is a canvas flocking simulation (separation, alignment, cohesion) stepped in requestAnimationFrame from random start positions, and it reacts to the cursor, so frames can't be sought directly. For a render, seed the starting flock, remove the cursor input, and step the simulation a fixed number of ticks per video frame from frame 0 (cache the states so a seek replays from the nearest cached tick); drive it from frame / fps in Remotion or the timeline time in HyperFrames. Set count, palette (brand colours), background, agentShape and attractors to steer the flock around text.

## Used in

- [Top-N listicle](https://skills.varg.ai/video/listicle.md)
- [Quiz, poll & would-you-rather](https://skills.varg.ai/video/quiz.md)
- [Bar chart race](https://skills.varg.ai/video/chart-race.md)
- [Science what-if explainer](https://skills.varg.ai/video/science-explainer.md)
- [Lyric video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/lyric-video.md)
- [Audio visualizer](https://skills.varg.ai/video/visualizer.md)
- [Logo sting](https://skills.varg.ai/video/logo-sting.md)
- [Countdown & launch timer](https://skills.varg.ai/video/countdown.md)

## More particles & physics

- [Confetti](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.confetti.md) — `npx hyperframes add confetti`
- [Liquid Metal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.liquid-metal.md) — `npx hyperframes add liquid-metal`
- [Particle Image Reveal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.particle-image-reveal.md) — `npx hyperframes add particle-image-reveal`
- [Pendulum Swing](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.pendulum-swing.md) — `npx hyperframes add pendulum-swing`
- [Snow](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.snow.md) — `npx hyperframes add snow`
- [Spiral Galaxy](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.spiral-galaxy.md) — `npx hyperframes add spiral-galaxy`