So my wife took our 4 year old daughter to the mall yesterday and they came back with astronaut Barbie and later in the evening built a Lego rocket for her. A+ parenting from my wife right there 👏
Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.