murmuration

April 7, 2018 7:42 PM

murmuration simulator (via B3ta)

murmuration: previously, previouslier.

posted by scruss (13 comments total)

I had a holy shit moment just a couple hours ago with Horizon Zero Dawn -- I'd never before noticed there's a murmuration in the game (just as decor). It seemed to have at least a couple hundred birds, and looked really good. I mean I've played that game for hundreds of hours and had never seen it, and now there's two murmuration simulations in one day!
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:07 PM on April 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

This 2011 murmuration post features one of my favorite videos.
posted by cichlid ceilidh at 8:17 PM on April 7, 2018 [7 favorites]

very nice. wish visitors could up the population.
posted by mwhybark at 1:38 AM on April 8, 2018

> wish visitors could up the population.

Click the   ▋▋  top left!
posted by farlukar at 3:11 AM on April 8, 2018 [2 favorites]

I just learned a new word! I used to see murmurations all the time when I worked in downtown SF. So pretty.
posted by grumpybear69 at 5:52 AM on April 8, 2018

This is kind of trippy to me because it's a classic computer life simulation (Boids, 1986) but I'm pretty sure I've never seen it executed on a natural background.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 7:55 AM on April 8, 2018 [2 favorites]

Heh. Upon first looking at the word, I thought murmuration meant being walled up, as in The Cask of Amontillado.

I'm sure there's someone out there who wants to simulate that.
posted by chavenet at 8:22 AM on April 8, 2018 [2 favorites]

> being walled up, as in The Cask Of Amontillado

That'd be immurement!
posted by a mirror and an encyclopedia at 8:45 AM on April 8, 2018 [3 favorites]

> in downtown SF

I remember them at the East Bay bus terminal, when there were still the big trees there. I assume the "improvements" have removed those.

Where do they spend the night now?
posted by hank at 10:14 AM on April 8, 2018

Huh - I hadn't heard of Boids (ancient code examples therein) before. This demo works really well if you up the population count to several thousand: you get the real plastic wheeling cloud effect.

Now, if only the background could be changed to something like the view over the Clyde from George V Bridge of an evening, I'd be much happier.
posted by scruss at 12:14 PM on April 8, 2018

Click the ▋▋ top left!

Thank you! I was looking at this on iPad last night and after clicking on the stats info upper left concluded that there was no interactive component.
posted by mwhybark at 1:01 PM on April 8, 2018

Mesmerizing!
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 1:30 PM on April 8, 2018

Aberystwyth Starlings in Ceredigion, west Wales.
posted by ceiriog at 10:29 AM on April 9, 2018 [1 favorite]