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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"The head is heavily armored, but the rear of the abdomen is a weak point for obvious reasons, there has to be an orifice there.
And so they target that, but then they also avoid being targeted by others. And the outcome of following those that are moving away from you and moving away from those moving towards you results in the whole swarm beginning to march together across this desert environment."
Iain Couzin from:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-is-flocking-like-computing-20240328/