Why are murmurations so beautiful?
(Thinking about cusp singularities, and wondering if there's a connection to caustics. Motivated by some questions in cognitive science and interface design...)
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Seems related to what makes the choruses so captivating in A Topiary.
I don't feel the same sense of vertigo watching ants form trails. I wonder why? But I do feel something like it from some other "level-jumping" phenomena: herd migrations, blossoms forming, traffic patterns…