Question/Idea
I have witnessed a murmuration, I just called it a bird cloud. I was struck by their natural beauty, but also could see analogies to other patterns of nature. This is how an electron cloud around an atom must look. This is what a summer breeze would look like. Even more abstract, this is what the “I have a Dream” speech looked like.
Thoughts…
Inspiration
Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.
Murmuration Photos and Video
http://www.sciencedump.com/content/murmuration
Murmuration research
http://www.collective-behavior.com/publ/KingSumpter2012.pdf
Related Video: Bubble Man on Beach (I see this as an abstract notion of a poets life.)
I remember seeing something a few years ago about using artificial intelligence and some simple rules to replicate the “hive mind” movements of flocks of birds. I did find this simulator that models some of that. The whole swarm intelligence thing amazes me.