Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Separation (behavior)

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The result was merge to Flocking (behavior) . –Juliancolton | ^Talk 00:07, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Separation (behavior)

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An odd entry that presents an old computer-simulation project as an established fact about biology. The relevant reference here is "Boids", a page on a 1986 computer simulation of flocking behaviour. It uses three principles (Separation, Alignment and Cohesion) that together produce a flock-like behaviour. But this was a computer graphics project; nowhere is the claim made that animal flocking behaviour is based on exactly these three principles. (This is not to suggest that simulation work is without value; it simply does not seem to have been the goal in this case. This was largely graphics research, from someone who went on to do graphics research work for Sony.)

This entry could be either a more general article about simulations (using more sources), otherwise delete or redirect somewhere, perhaps Flocking (behavior). Hairhorn (talk) 05:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. Flocking (behavior) is also about simulations. So perhaps the complaint should simply be that this is a redundant article. All the information is already on the flocking page. Hairhorn (talk) 05:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- (X! · talk) · @305 · 06:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Flocking (behavior), might be spun off again in the future once this topic is better-developed. Tim Vickers (talk) 15:50, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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