Flocking simulation of starling murmuration using web graphics library(webGL) and openGL shader language in javascript.

Flocking is a the motion of birds together and flocking behavior is a type of behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are in flight.

Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. It is known as murmuration, when a huge flocks of starling in migration form shape-shifting flight patterns. A good example is shown below -

The static javascript library files from three.js and soome from webGL-js.

Shader programs are the ones that are compiled in graphical processing unit.

Used CSS stylesheets in the markup code.

Images that shall be used in the front-end code.

• install npm
• install http-server (or similar package)
• run the http-server from the folder where the script is located
• Go the local server claimed by http-server

For linux users the terminal commands are as follows-

sudo apt-get install -y nodejs sudo apt-get install npm sudo npm install http-server -g http-server -c-1 

or

Just run the index.html file, embedding the javascript files in it.

• Mathematical model of flocking behavior
• Boids-algorithm - Pseudocode
• Research Paper - Craig Reynold's simulation

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A video of falcon attack on flock of starling.