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flocking: a standalone construct

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Complexity science

group motion of animals or agents produced by each following local rules of separation, alignment and cohesion.

In complexity science, flocking refers to group motion of animals or agents produced by each following local rules of separation, alignment and cohesion. This meaning comes from Reynolds (1987) in ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics.[1]

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References

  1. Reynolds, C. W. (1987). Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, 21(4), 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1145/37402.37406

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