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In A Flight of Starlings https://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_a_Flight_of_Starlings.html https://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_a_Flight_of_Starli...

• lioeters 19d ago
  Seen a photograph of starlings when the flock takes on the silhouette of a giant bird. I've always been fascinated by that kind of (apparent?) collective intelligence. There's seemingly no leader, but from the interactions of swarms of independent actors emerge (what seems like) a larger mind. Surely we humans exhibit such behavior also, when seen from a certain elevated perspective like statistics.
  • srean 19d ago
    Photographs don't do justice. Stop everything now and search for videos on YouTube. You can also search for boids to explore simple rules that replicate such dynamics.
    • lioeters 19d ago
      Ooh boids, yes! One of my favorite books is Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. I learned about it from another favorite, Nature of Code, which has a great list of related books. https://natureofcode.com/resources/#further-reading https://natureofcode.com/resources/#further-reading
      • srean 19d ago
        Nature of Code is such a great book !