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Black sun

via BBC’s The Code

Starlings create these amazing patterns when flying together. It seems they follow three simple rules and if you recreate them as a software model, you can get the same patterns. Fly at the same speed, always stay the same distance between you and your neighbours and if you see a predator, leg it.

Meanwhile a 13 year old uses the Fibonacci sequence to redesign solar panels to be more like trees and so more efficient.

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2 Responses to “Black sun”

  1. Keith Gaughan says:
    August 28, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    About that kid’s project, not really. The meeja didn’t fact-check themselves: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JmlMNqVPKlsJ:uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/08/solar-panel-trees-really-are-inferior.html

  2. Ellen says:
    September 14, 2011 at 4:42 am

    How interesting. They’re my favourite birds….
    Thank you