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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 10:31 am
(November 23, 2012 at 10:27 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (November 23, 2012 at 10:23 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I REALLY HATE Starlings... video is awesome all the same
Indeed, revolting birds. And a blight on the East Coast, as are Sparrows.
But watching the patterns they form IS amazing.
Noooo, sparrows are cute. And tiny. And they stay home for the winter. It's so funny, waking up very early after it's been snowing, in this very special type of quiet that snow brings... and then the sparrows wake up, too, and all hell breaks loose, so to speak 
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 10:31 am
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 4:18 pm
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Take a look at the "boids" simulation to see how few "commands" are required to achieve this.....beautiful, absolutely, complicated...almost certainly not.
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 4:50 pm
I thought so, too. The birds are probably just following some simple algorithms/instructions built into their heads. That's why they are able to create these patterns.
That is something really clever, though, and absolutely beautiful as well. 
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 7:01 pm
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Well, hate them or not, that was really neat to watch. Since the west coast isn't plagued by them (we get some issues near the coast sometimes), I don't have any negative feelings about starlings, so I thought the video was really amazing!
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 7:07 pm
(November 23, 2012 at 7:05 pm)Aroura Wrote: Well, hate them or not, that was really neat to watch. Since the west coast isn't plagued by them (we get some issues near the coast sometimes), I don't have any negative feelings about starlings, so I thought the video was really amazing!
People's dislike of them plaguing cities is one of the reasons why their numbers here in the UK have declined so massively.
Shame, really.
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 7:10 pm
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November 23, 2012 at 7:16 pm
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RE: Starling Murmurations
November 23, 2012 at 7:30 pm
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