Emergence and Flocking - From the OSLIST Archives

[Chris Corrigan]

Cool...that's one of my favourite links of all time actually, and it holds
up even five years later.

I just killed five minutes staring at those little guys moving around.

Lovely.

Chris

On 5/30/07, Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> And indeed it was there...
>
> An old post on flocking and self organization.
>
> Thanks Chris
>
> Artur
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> *Date:*         Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:47:37 -0700
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> *From:*         Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com> *Subject:*      Web
> site on flocking, swarming and other adaptive behaviour
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> This -  http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ - is amazing.  It's a site
> maintained by Craig Reynolds who developed a computer model of bird
> flocks using three simple rules: avoid crowding flockmates, steer to the
> centre of the flock and move towards the average position of flock
> mates.  The results of these three rules can be seen in a little java
> applet on the page, and then you can scroll down for a huge collection
> of links on this phenomenon.
>
> If nothing else, it helps me understand why OST participants never run
> into each other.  Of course my own internal metaphor generation engine
> is running full steam...
>
> Chris
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