V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds

Authors:
Andre Nathan;Valmir C. Barbosa
Affiliations:
-;-
Venue:
Artificial Life
Year:
2008

Citing 3
Cited 4

Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model

SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The computational beauty of nature

The computational beauty of nature
Fuzzifying the thoughts of animats

IFSA'03 Proceedings of the 10th international fuzzy systems association World Congress conference on Fuzzy sets and systems

A first attempt to numerically compute forces on birds in v formation

Artificial Life
Finding forms of flocking: evolutionary search in ABM parameter-spaces

MABS'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation
Happiness is assortative in online social networks

Artificial Life
Animation of flocks flying in line formations

Artificial Life

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. We introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that they tend to lead to stabilization into several of the well-known V-like formations that have been observed in nature. We also provide quantitative indicators that we believe are closely related to achieving V-like formations, and study their behavior over a large set of independent simulations.