Sax heard about this this arguement in one of the nightly calls from Nadia and Art, and he was willing to think about it seriously as he was anything else. "It's been found that a few simple rules can regulate very complex behavior. There's a classic computer model for flocking birds, for instance, which has only three rules - keep an equal distance from everyone around you - don't change speed too fast - avoid stationary objects. Those will model the flight of a flock quite nicely."
"A computer flock maybe," Nadia scoffed. "Have you ever seen chimney swifts at dusk?"
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Sax heard about this this arguement in one of the nightly calls from Nadia and Art, and he was willing to think about it seriously as he was anything else. "It's been found that a few simple rules can regulate very complex behavior. There's a classic computer model for flocking birds, for instance, which has only three rules - keep an equal distance from everyone around you - don't change speed too fast - avoid stationary objects. Those will model the flight of a flock quite nicely."
"A computer flock maybe," Nadia scoffed. "Have you ever seen chimney swifts at dusk?"
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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