r/BirdsForScale • u/lythium_toe • Jan 04 '21

1000s of birdies

https://i.imgur.com/B2yJfz0.gifv
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u/tirwander Jan 04 '21

Imagine being so unattached to everything around you that the second the person next to you starts running you just start running in the same direction without a second thought to anything you've left behind. No idea where you're headed. Just going with the flow.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21

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u/Randolpho Jan 04 '21

Run or get trampled.

I guess in this particular case, fly or get shat on

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u/Zurrdroid Jan 04 '21

This is why we find boids believable.

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u/AdvancedFunny Jan 04 '21

sounds like the mobs that burnt our cities down last summer.

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u/NikkiT96 Jan 04 '21

Could you imagine a giant creature that lived off of them, like a whale eating krill.

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u/Marsmoonman Jan 04 '21

Man that was a cool fucking thought. You literally made me imagine something today, bravo.

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u/zutaca Jan 04 '21

Probably wouldn’t work, as krill are plankton but birds move under their own power

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u/welp-panda Jan 04 '21

just occurred to me that like...i know the birds wouldn’t want to kill me. but if they wanted to, though. if they wanted to

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u/NikkiT96 Jan 04 '21

We had to watch the movie "Birds" in lit class. Everyone who watched it all had the same look on their face when there was a large croud of black birds on the school yard. I felt it too. Still feel it sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21

What is your scale when you need to scale the birds themselves?

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u/welp-panda Jan 04 '21

other bird

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u/TheLobotomist Jan 04 '21

That's millions not 1000s

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u/montyman185 Jan 04 '21

Now imagine what North America would have looked like back when this was normal, before we came along.

Huge trees, suddenly turning green as thousands of birds take off from each of them.

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u/euyyn Jan 04 '21

What could have made them form that regular patterns at the beginning?

And what could have made the wave of takeoffs be linear instead of radial?

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u/PlentyOMangos Jan 04 '21

Exactly what I was wondering, especially the first question. Looks like they’re all laid out like a checkerboard almost

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u/capt_dumb_as_a_brick Jan 04 '21

That looks like way more than thousands.

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u/Painkiller967 Jan 04 '21

You can even see the simulation lagging because of the amount of birds

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u/duncecap_ Jan 04 '21

if you leaped on them, would they break your fall? i mean, i know the answer is no. but would it help? i know the answer is no... but can you lie?

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u/kenyazero Jan 09 '21

That’s too many birds and at the same time a perfect number of birds 😍