I decided to play around a bit with the NetLogo flocking demo. In the modified version you can watch the flock form from the perspective of one of the birds -- making the flock itself look more or less static. A few statistics are gathered showing how uniform the flock becomes.
To run it,
download NetLogo and open the attached file.
A bit more information is included in the Information tab.
-- Russ
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
http://www.friam.org