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From: kjartan@zig.inria.fr (Kjartan Emilson)
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Subject: Re: particle system numerical methods
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Date: 13 Nov 90 20:59:37 GMT
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There was an article on the subject of flocking birds, in the SIGGRAPH
papers from 1986 or 1987.  There were some quite impressive simulations
there.  That guy assumed only nearest neighbour interaction, i.e each
bird only saw in a given solid angle, and their behaviour was only 
dependent on that.