I give you this moment of starlings zen.
I suggest that you watch this video before facing rush-hour traffic.
Here is another hypnotic video of Starlings in Scotland:
Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks")
I give you this moment of starlings zen.
I suggest that you watch this video before facing rush-hour traffic.
Here is another hypnotic video of Starlings in Scotland:
And a Nasty Man to Boot. I hear he wanted in Marilyn’s Boot too.
if you can write an alogrithm for flocking you can make millions in the stock market.
Starlings are an exotic/introduced, devastating ornithological pest in the USA; however, those flights are exceptional examples of natural aerobatics that anthropogenic constructs could never equal.
FFLEO,
And all descended from a mating pair introduced to New York so that all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare would live in Central Park.
How do starling flocks stay so beautifully organized without a government to tell them what to do?
For those interested in how this happens or in watching a simulator of it, check out:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~paul/publications/boids/index.html or
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/