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Posted by itsamemario on Sep-09-2009 20:37:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Some birds are like schools of fish in their flying formations. That is, they move depending on where surrounding birds in formation move/take their cues from the nearest birds.

I read somewhere that each starling observes 6-7 other starlings in the formation to see where they should fly.

Posted by [N]�k|��[Z] on Sep-09-2009 20:44:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_alfi
I read somewhere that each starling observes 6-7 other starlings in the formation to see where they should fly.

then you really need to start watching TV or something... you sad fuck

Posted by ziptnf on Sep-09-2009 20:48:

I actually emailed my Artificial Intelligence professor about this very video. He did his dissertation on swarms and nanotechnology related items. It's interesting, he gave me three words: cohesion, separation, alignment.

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

http://www.red3d.com/cwr/papers/1987/boids.html

Anyone interested in Swarms should read this. Fascinating stuff.

Posted by The17sss on Sep-09-2009 20:52:

quote:
Originally posted by ziptnf
Anyone interested in Swarms should read this. Fascinating stuff.

That just sounds hilarious. lol... anyone interested in swarms.

Posted by meriter on Sep-09-2009 20:55:

highways like veins

Posted by we_R_DNA on Sep-09-2009 21:23:

The birds are doing complex quantum mechanical wave functions by utilizing a complex array of groupings. These wave functions, shown in real time, have yet to be understood by humans at this current time. Ultimately the birds, and there are a lot of them, know how to do complex quantum mechanical wave functions on the fly.

Posted by ziptnf on Sep-09-2009 21:53:

quote:
Originally posted by The17sss
That just sounds hilarious. lol... anyone interested in swarms.

Get your head out of the gutter!

Posted by d-miurge on Sep-09-2009 22:51:

The birds reminds me of what we made
the birds reminds me of what remains

Posted by astroboy on Sep-10-2009 00:25:

I think they kinda explain the phenomenon in the vid xtr3m posted

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Originally posted by xtr3m
Starlings

Posted by Dj Nacht on Sep-10-2009 00:32:

Win post by Nefardec

Wtf are these birds doing, besides tripping me out?

Posted by we_R_DNA on Sep-10-2009 09:35:

More power to those who can lift themselves up off the ground; "Home where I wanted to go." ~ Clocks

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on Sep-10-2009 16:07:

how many a day do you smoke crack?

Posted by ziptnf on Sep-10-2009 16:09:

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit
how many a day do you smoke crack?

Twenty Five HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA.... now we ready to light

Posted by psymon.d on Sep-10-2009 16:12:

Impending armageddon?

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on Sep-10-2009 16:16:

its very intresting but definatley not unfathomable. Its convergent evolution in the works. We have swarms of insects (wasps bees) which do the same thing. And fish as jenny mentioned. These birds have very quick reflexes, large optic lobes and cerebellum to dictate naviational movement in coordinance with visual preception. form means function in the animal world so to have hypertrophied body parts (brain parts in this case) would dictate more advance functionality.

You should see how a blind bat tracks its fast moving prey using highly developed sonar type systems. This is also quite intresting and a tribute to our own Class.

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