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 <[email protected]> wrote:
And indeed it was there... An old post on flocking and self organization. Thanks Chris Artur --------- *Date:* Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:47:37 -0700 *Reply-To:* OSLIST <[email protected]> *Sender:* OSLIST <[email protected]> *From:* Chris Corrigan <[email protected]> *Subject:* Web site on flocking, swarming and other adaptive behaviour *Content-Type:* text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 ------------------------------ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48255/*http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/_ylc=X3oDMTI5MGx2aThyBF9TAzIxMTU1MDAzNTIEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNCQUJwaWxsYXJfTklfMzYwBHNsawNQcm9kdWN0X3F1ZXN0aW9uX3BhZ2U-?link=list&sid=396545433>from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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