Big deal, it's just a bunch of flocking birds... WHOA

That's better.

What are they doing? This looks like it has to be CGI.

"Our sparrows will blot out the sun!"

OH JEEBUS NOT THIS SHIAT AGAIN! WHY DO THE MODS KEEP GREENLIGHTING REPEATS! IT'S AN OUTRAGE! WHY THE HELL WOULD I PAY $5 A MONTH FOR THIS?

\There. I got it out of your system for you. Now shut up and enjoy the cool birds.

This is what the whole world would look like.....without MAN!

^{/just doesn't have the same panache as it used to}

Cewley: must be rerun season.

Duck season!

did they have to change from being shat on by all the birds?

Well that's great, it starts with an earthquake.

Pronoun trouble

Came looking for something new. Saw a re-post. Still cool though.

again ?

It's still new to me, dammit!


it looked like a lava lamp.

Mob mentality! Hur!

I suppose that's how the nano-bot swarms of the Singularity will look to us... before we're disassembled...

ChromaticKid: I suppose that's how the nano-bot swarms of the Singularity will look to us... before we're disassembled assimilated...

FTFY

Grables'Daughter: It kind of reminded me of a BIE thread.

Eep! And EIP!

/ohpleaseohpleaseohplease

Boids ^

Smoke monster.

That is all.

I predict that within 18.4 months every video link on Fark will be a repeat.

Grables'Daughter: It kind of reminded me of a BIE thread.

: )

Everything reminds you of a BIE thread.

Tommy Moo: What are they doing? This looks like it has to be CGI.

Not CGI. Flocking starlings are an incredible sight. [YouTube Link]

Fractal iteration.

Mr. Potatoass: Boids ^

Boids! I loved those little guys. When I did my Comp Sci degree I had the privilege of taking a few courses by someone who had worked with Craig Reynolds on boids and the Breaking the Ice film. Neat stuff; simple concepts, but crazy hard to do right and efficiently.

Did anyone ever figure out how boids-like behaviour works in nature (birds, fish, etc), or otherwise "solve" the boids problem? At the time I learned about boids it was thought that there was some super simple optimal algorithm birds used that would be (relatively) computationally simple, but that we just didn't understand it yet.

Headline should have read:

To the left, a mumuration of starlings. To the right, a whineation of farkers

Cool video, but could've done without the idiotic mugging at the camera at the beginning.