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In This Virtual Fish Tank, You Make the Rules
This simulation of a school of fish allows you to play with the weightings of three rules that cause coordinated group behavior.
Herds of Android Birds Mimic Ad Hoc Flocks
In winter during the late afternoon before settling down to roost, flocks of thousands of starlings will twist and turn, turning the sky black with strange curves that seem to move with a mind of their own. The flocks of up to a million strong form for warmth, for security, and for social contact.
The Golden Rule in the Wild
In the previous post, we discussed the Prisoner’s Dilemma and saw how a simple strategy called Tit-for-Tat enforced the Golden Rule and won a very interesting contest. But does Tit-for-Tat always come out on top? The most confounding thing about the strategy is that it can never win – at best, it can only tie [...]
