love -- read initially as this flocking: https://www.flockit.com/
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > > (might be useful re: Finsbury Park?) > > Disaggregate Flocking? > > https://youtu.be/R-J_KZI3dvY video > > Rather than swarming or flocking behavior, I'd like to call what > I see in these images aggregate behavior or disaggregate > behavior - what I mean is that the behavior is largely random > that the gatherings are very crude and so very loosely bound > that they fall apart constantly; they are "somewhat" incoherent. > I wonder if instead of an overall flocking behavior algorithm > algorithm one might consider or one might think about the > possibilities of local geodesics that each bird follows that > would have some relationship to avoidance behavior and to > coagulation behavior but at the same time would not call this > one way another into an overall shape such as you get with a > murmuration or migration flocks . These things are much more > loosely bound if they're bound at all with the goals in the > images when you look at the time lapse material. When you look > at the time lapse material you can see that they're much more > individually moving then usually would be found In flocking > behavior. If anything they're much more loosely bound by the > external circumstances of the edges of the water body or bodies > . But the movement seems to be slightly circular and that might > be the result of flight patterns that are necessary to catch the > air and move properly in relationship to the other birds to the > neighbors but it might also be almost random and simply based on > avoidive behavior and looking for geodesics not quite stop that. > [that is, aggregative behavior within circumstances dictated by > neighborhood features such as trees, pools, rivers.] Not looking > for geodesics but as if they were following highly localized > coordinates of some sort. I'm dictating this, which is another > sort of flock behavior in the sense that the words are being put > together with some kind of semantic continuity that the machine > is interpreting. But at the same time there are withdrawals and > things are much looser then that. In this sense the text itself > is a kind of aggregate that veers off in one way or another. > What was most amazing was when all of the all of the gulls took > off simultaneously or roughly simultaneously not in a wave not > even in a loose flock but from the bridge to the place where I > was making the recording. More than that, there's a series of > bridges and a farther bridge which is difficult to see in the > video they also took off at the same time there must have been > at least 1000 birds in the river between the two bridges and to > further bridges that were even beyond those two. I'm fascinated > by this and have spent a considerable amount of time trying to > figure out what's going on. Ironically it's a lot easier, easier > to figure out with the murmuration or sandhill cranes for > example or migration in V shape patterns in general . But this > seems different seems a different kind of behavior and the > disorderliness may in fact be incredibly deep which would be > really fascinating . Patsy disorderly oneness might in fact be > incredibly deep . That is disorderliness might in fact be > incredibly deep. It's the same with this as it is with the > flight of these birds errors appearing everywhere in the text > the text bearing off and then coming back just as the birds will > land somewhat in the same places that they took off from > somewhat in the same area at least but individually it becomes a > real headache to try to I sect what's actually going on period > to try to sense what's actually going on. > > ____ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
