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2024-06-23 20:31 dustin  
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this is definitely a new dancing fly formation! there is no smaller known dff which moves left with a short loop period of 9 frames, so this can't be an extended version of anything known. crazy! :d

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2024-06-23 23:34 dustin  
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the formation on the map is not yet the dff, though. the dff develops after a few frames. if you concentrate on the two ΖΖ, you can see clearly that at the beginning, they move upwards into their positions before regularly moving left.

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2024-06-24 12:18 DarkStoorM  
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That's what I found interesting about all this. I had quite a number of possible formations, but in the end, they just "assemble" into the already known formation. For example, I had cases where flies were just scattered around in a 6x5 box, but after around 6-7 frames they just form the [I forgot the name]:  
  
ΖΖΖΖΖ  
.ΗΗΖ.  
.Ζ...  
  
So in this cave we could take the frame where fireflies start from the following position and make a formation out of that :D  
  
Ζ  
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Ζ

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2024-06-25 11:51 DarkStoorM  
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 dustin : I ACCIDENTALLY DETACHED ONE Η AND THE FORMATION STILL MOVES in the same way. Looks like there was one free rider :D

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2024-06-25 20:53 dustin  
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 darkstoorm : exactly! i also worked that out today. the basic formation has 8 flies, and arbitrarily many free riders can be added. demo cave is in work :d