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amazing starlings murmuration (full HD) -www.keepturningleft.co.uk

raisingmaggie · 3.5M views · 2010-11-13 · 3:55

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Footage of a huge flock of starlings performing a murmuration, filmed by wildlife cameraman Dylan Winter. The flock moves in tightly coordinated shapes.

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Cited as a benchmark for leaderless swarm behavior that robots and drones could aim to match.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2022

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pflanze · 2022-06 · Recommendation

One with higher quality (not the same recording): [VIDEO] . Youtube also refers to some other nice recordings from that one. (There's also a video with intermediate quality, and otherwise distracting parts, but amazing formations too: [LINK] / [LINK] ) Sadly I haven't found one with (just) original sound (no music).

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jbob2000 · 2018-06 · Reference

If you manage to develop a drone swarm system that drops things, the last thing it will be used for is fighting fires. I'm waiting for someone to develop drones that swarm like starlings ( [VIDEO] ). You could take down an entire battlegroup with a couple thousand suicide drones.

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sounds · 2015-02 · Reference

As someone who has worked a LOT with drones of all form factors (quad copters, propeller drones, battery and dead dinosaur-fueled), when drones can do this, drones will be cool: [VIDEO] Context: [LINK]

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