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	title: "Murmurations",

            

            
            

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	description: "Boids simulation — emergent flocking from local rules",

            

            
            

                
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  description: "Birds, math, and poetry in motion",

            

            
            

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		<h2 class="mb-2 text-sm font-semibold">Boids &amp; Starlings</h2>

            

            
            

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		<p class="mb-2">

            

            
            

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			A <em>murmuration</em> is the swirling, shape-shifting flight of thousands of starlings at dusk.

            

            
            

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      No leader directs them; coherence emerges from each bird reacting to its closest neighbors.

            

            
            

                
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      There is no leader, rather coherence emerges from each bird reacting to its closest neighbors.

            

            
            

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		</p>

            

            
            

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		<p class="mb-2">

            

            
            

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			This simulation uses <a class="underline" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Craig Reynolds&apos; boids algorithm</a>.

            

            
        
            

            
            

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			<li><strong>Cohesion</strong> (steer toward neighbor center)</li>

            

            
            

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			Real starlings track ~7 nearest neighbors regardless of distance: topological, not metric.

            

            
            

                
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			Real starlings track ~7 nearest neighbors regardless of distance.

            

            
            

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			That fixed count is why turning waves cross the flock so fast and stay crisp at any density.

            

            
            

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		</p>

            

            
            

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