I'd never heard of Murmuration... Take a look at the following video. If your short on time,
skip to 45sec mark, that's where things begin to get really interesting.
Now I'm curious how one might go about simulating something like this. I'm not looking for an exact scientific model,, but I think something close would make for an interesting particle effect. Here's some basic info of what is happening.
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Last year, Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi took on the challenge of explaining the murmuration. What he found, as ably explained by my old Wired colleague Brandon Keim, is that the math equations that best describe starling movement are borrowed "from the literature of 'criticality,' of crystal formation and avalanches -- systems poised on the brink, capable of near-instantaneous transformation." They call it "scale-free correlation," and it means that no matter how big the flock, "If any one bird turned and changed speed, so would all the others
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~ZENassem
