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From: marek@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Marek W. Lugowski)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Re: particle system numerical methods
Message-ID: <72032@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 90 19:39:26 GMT
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In article <9083@mirsa.inria.fr> kjartan@zig.inria.fr (Kjartan Emilson) writes:
: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.

The guy's name is Craig Reynolds and he is at Symbolics on the West Coast:
cwr@white.sww.symbolics.com

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