Bowery Birds

A digital recreation of the Bowery in 1997 between Houston St. and Delancey St.

Very much in progress!

Here is a long sequence of drifting through the space, captured at end of June '08:

A briefer sequence:

And an earlier sequence, just when the birds were starting to look like birds!

Have spent many happy hours on this at Eyebeam during 2008 winter residency.

Coded in Lisp, the way real programs were.

Owes a great debt to Craig Reynolds' flocking work.