Separation (behavior)
Separation ( lat. Separare: "separate") is behavior that occurs in natural swarms. It causes the individual individuals of the swarm to keep a distance from one another and thus forms the opposite of cohesion behavior ( cohesion: "cohesion").
Scientists such as Craig Reynolds , who analyzed natural swarm behavior in order to model it on the computer , came to the conclusion that the phenomenon can be described by three basic rules that are observed by every individual and which generate emergent behavior at the swarm level :
- Move towards the center of those you see around you ( cohesion ).
- Move away as soon as someone comes too close to you (separation).
- Move in roughly the same direction as your neighbors ( alignment ).
Influences
The separation behavior of an individual is limited by their field of vision and their brain capacities. This allows people moving through crowded pedestrian zones to focus on more targets than most birds moving in large flocks.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Craig Reynolds: Boids
- ^ South German knowledge . 04, 2008, p. 10