Saturday, October 13, 2007

When birds fly in a flock ...


... they form pretty amazing patterns. Check out the video. Via Julianne's post pointing us to some recent research on this phenomenon:

There’s a lovely two page article [in the latest issue of Physics Today] on the STARFLAG project, which is modeling the 3-dimensional flocking behavior of starlings outside of Rome, using 3-d stereograms. The pictures are just spectacular ...

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