Flocking

2011-04-19 — 2014-11-20

Wherein an agent-based model of collective motion is presented, the Boids rules are applied to spatial dynamics, and experiments mixing live animals with simulated agents are described.

distributed
statmech

a.k.a. collective motion, swarm dynamics, herd behaviour, particle systems

A type of agent-based model where the emphasis is on motion in space.

If you’d like, a mechanism design problem on a spatial domain.

One thought this model provokes, which is frankly the main appeal for me, is that it would make a really nice algorithm to drive a granular sampler. Has anyone done that yet? UPDATE: Turns out they have, e.g. Nicholas Mariette.

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