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zachrose on June 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fireflies

Is there some inverse of the firefly's sync protocol that if they all followed would turn a synchronized swarm back into a chaotic one?

panic on June 1, 2017 [–]

In real fireflies, the individual clocks have slightly different frequencies. The inverse of the protocol is no protocol: stop syncing and let the blinks slowly fall back into chaos.

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