Starlings

An Agent-Based Model and Simulation of Starling Murmuration

Published on 15 May 2017

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Theory

The model is based overwhelmingly on the paper ‘Self-organized aerial displays of thousands of starlings: a model’ by H. Hildenbrandt C. Carere and C.K. Hemelrijka. It’s available for free here. (Wow, isn’t Open Access academia lovely?)

History

I made this as my project for MATH 437 Mathematical Methods in Biology at McGill University in the 2017 Winter Term with Aashna Uppal.

What’s here

The project was written in Processing 3, which looks a lot like Java. It’s also the language I first learnt to code in (thank you, you great people!) I’ve included two folders.

Check it out

Video of Starling simulation