flocking behaviour is a 3D artificial life work, installed as a 3D projection in the Fine Roomsof the Royal Academy in 1999. Visitors were immersed in a large virtual environment
inhabited by animated origami creatures ‘made’ from very high resolution folded paper. |
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These creatures have both individual and group behaviour. Recalling the flocking tendencies of groups of otherwise individual creatures, the origami birds and fish moved among visitors in an emergent activity that never repeated itself, but was always new. Visitors could move among the creatures and explore the space using a six-degree of freedom navigation device, discovering that the environment was actually unbounded in every direction. |
