Emergence and Flocking - From the OSLIST Archives

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

And it can be lots of fun if you have a big group to play with.  Give
everybody the three rules and let ‘em go.  After a couple of minutes you see
the flocking thing happening.  Then pull two folks aside and give them one
more rule:  head slowly but steadily towards the door.  In a couple of
minutes the place is empty…

 

Kind of gets the imp (small tricky spirit) going wondering what else we
could do with it?

 

Cheers,

Wendy

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
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Subject: Re: Emergence and Flocking - From the OSLIST Archives

 

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 <HYPERLINK
"mailto:arturfsilva at yahoo.com"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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This -  HYPERLINK "http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/"
\nhttp://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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