Vorts,
Flocking seems to be a "bottom up" emergent property of lots of natural
systems that can be modeled using complexity theory. It's been awhile
since I read it but I belive it's covered in: At home in the Universe by
Stuart Kauffman. A really interesting book by the way.
A quick search turns up: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocking_(behavior)>
It looks like Craig Reynolds is the originator of the modeling.
Ron
--On Monday, December 10, 2012 9:07 PM -0500 David Roberson
<dlrober...@aol.com> wrote:
Your post brings back a memory from a year or so ago. Someone made a
model of bird flocks similar to what you are describing where they tried
different behavior criteria. I think that they actually came up with a
good match to what is observed. I wish I could remember where that
article was located.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <orionwo...@charter.net>
To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 10, 2012 8:12 pm
Subject: RE: [Vo]:OT (Holiday Spirit): Christmas Flash Mob... or Group
Mind occasionally waking up?
From Harry:
it would be interesting to track the position of one bird within the
flock.
Yes, it would! I suspect technology is advanced and miniaturized enough
that
we could easily fit locator chips on several starlings. Start collecting
data.
Regards,
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
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