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11flocking — flÉ‘k /flÉ’k n. herd, pack; crowd; congregation of religious believers; tuft of wool; stuffing for upholstery v. gather, crowd, come together, throng …
12flocking — flock·ing …
13flocking — flock•ing [[t]ˈflɒk ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) fur tex a velvetlike pattern produced on wallpaper or cloth decorated with flock 2) fur tex flock II, 3) • Etymology: 1870–75 …
14flocking — ˈfläkiŋ noun ( s) Etymology: flock (III) + ing 1. : decorative work or a design in flock 2. : flock III 3 …
15Christmas tree — For other uses, see Christmas tree (disambiguation). A lit up Christmas Tree with ornaments [1] The Christmas tree, also known as a Yule tree, is a decorated evergreen coniferous tree, real o …
16Bird — For other uses, see Bird (disambiguation). Aves and Avifauna redirect here. For other uses, see Aves (disambiguation) or Avifauna (disambiguation). Birds Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Recent, 150–0 Ma …
17Collective animal behavior — Sort sol. Starling flock at sunset in Denmark Collective animal behavior describes the coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals and the emergent properties of these groups. Facets of this topic include the costs and benefits of… …
18Emergence — For other uses see Emergence (disambiguation), Emergent, and Emergency. : See also the closely related articles: Spontaneous order and self organization. In philosophy, systems theory and the sciences, emergence is the way complex systems and… …
19Boids — Boids, developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, is an artificial life program, simulating the flocking behaviour of birds. His paper on this topic was published in 1987 in the proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference.As with most artificial life… …
20Swarm intelligence — (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self organized systems. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems [ Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm… …
