Murmuration (flocking starlings) — live canvas animation example

🐦 Murmuration — how do thousands of starlings swirl as one, with no leader? They don't follow a leader, and nothing choreographs the flock. Each bird obeys just THREE simple rules, looking only at the handful of neighbors near it: 1. SEPARATION — don't crowd: steer away from neighbors that get too close. 2. ALIGNMENT — go with the flow: steer toward the average heading of neighbors. 3. COHESION — stay together: steer toward the average position of neighbors. Every bird does only that, every frame. The hypnotic, wheeling murmuration you see is EMERGENT — it appears from hundreds of birds each following local rules, not from any global plan. That's the whole lesson: complex group behavior from simple local behavior. This is Craig Reynolds' "boids" model (1986) — the same idea behind flocks, schools, and crowds in films and games. The math (separation·alignment·cohesion steering) is the pure boidsStep / Flock in @utilspalooza/core; this page just draws it.