Murmuration

Create **Murmuration** — an animation of a great flock of starlings wheeling over an empty field at dusk. A murmuration is one of nature's most hypnotic sights: thousands of birds moving as one fluid body, splitting and merging, thickening into dark shapes and thinning into mist, never colliding, never still. What it should capture: - A large flock of individual birds whose collective motion emerges from simple local behaviour — they follow their neighbours, keep their distance, and turn together — so the shapes you see are not scripted but arise on their own. - The living quality of the real thing: the flock stretching, folding back on itself, condensing and dispersing, catching the last light. - A dusk setting — a fading sky, a low horizon, the birds as shifting darkness against it. - Some responsiveness — the flock reacting to the cursor as if to a hawk, scattering and re-forming — so it feels alive. Smooth, believable motion at a good frame rate matters more than the raw number of birds. The mood is organic, flowing, and quietly awe-inspiring. Draw everything in code (canvas or WebGL); no external images or network libraries. This challenge stresses **emergent, algorithmic motion** — whether the model can implement flocking that genuinely looks alive, not faked. All design decisions — the flocking model, palette, setting, interaction — are yours. There is no single right answer; make something with a point of view.