● RUNNING 700 BIRDS
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Move your mouse over the flock or touch it to scatter the birds.
Thousands of birds. Three simple rules. No conductor. Change the conditions and watch a collective pattern emerge.
Each bird steers away from neighbors that are too close.
Each bird tends to match the heading of nearby birds.
Each bird tends to remain close to its neighbors.
Scientific note: This is an educational, two-dimensional Boids simulation using distance-based (metric) neighborhoods. Real starling flocks are three-dimensional, and studies suggest predominantly topological interactions with roughly six or seven neighbors. The screen has artificial boundaries to keep every bird visible. It illustrates an organizing principle, not a complete biological model. Reference: Reynolds (1987).