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From: gjohn@neon.Stanford.EDU (George H. John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: The "flock" demo -- birds as cellular automata
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.234625.10158@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:46:25 GMT
Sender: gjohn@Neon.Stanford.EDU (George John)
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I recently got the "flock.hqx" file from mac.archive.umich.edu
in the mac/utilities/screensavers directory.  

I am very interested in the source code, but the author gives
no email address.

The program is a simple demo of flight patterns of a flock of birds,
using simple rules to determine the direction that the birds should
fly.  I remember hearing last summer that "a scientist" somewhere 
had discovered a very simple algorithm that seems to accurately
predict flight patterns in a flock of birds, and I'm guessing that
this is the algorithm used for the demo in the archive.

If anyone knows the author or has their own source code for a 
similar program, please let me know.

--George John -- ".sig files waste bandwidth"