Duck!

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Glassner's

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

When ducks swim on a smooth deep lake, they create a V-shaped ripple of waves behind them. Boats and ships do the same thing, as do human swimmers. I saw a duck swimming across a glass-smooth pond a few weeks ago, and I wondered what it might be like if I could choreograph a flock of trained ducks to swim as I wanted. Could the ducks be induced to make interesting patterns out of their overlapping wakes?