Sciber

"Push, shout, or politely excuse yourself all you want, but those slowpokes in your way just won't budge. A new study shows a long-neglected reason why: Up to 70% of people in crowds socially glue themselves into groups of two or more, slowing down traffic. What's worse, as crowds gets denser, groups bend into anti-aerodynamic shapes that exacerbate the problem." Full news report @ ScienceNOW.

Full Article:

Moussaïd M, Perozo N, Garnier S, Helbing D, Theraulaz G [2010]. "The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics". PLoS ONE 5(4): e10047.

Labels: complexity, modeling

Lecture 7 - Modeling the World

Labels: modeling, robots

Turing Machine Simulator 1
Turing Machine Simulator 2
Pi the Movie

The Antikythera Mechanism
Interactive Relighting of the Antikythera Mechanism
Story @ BBC News
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

Fibonacci Sequence

• Fibonacci numbers in Nature. The Romanesco Vegetable.
  
• Fibonacci Spiral
  
• Fibonacci Music
  
• Fibonacci Waltz

A good description of L-Systems by Chris Jennings

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"If handled appropriately, data about Internet-based communication and interactivity could revolutionize our understanding of collective human behaviour". Full essay @A twenty-first century science : Article : Nature

Labels: data, modeling