Spontaneous Synchronization of fireflies 

I experienced something like this while camping a while ago! So beautiful to see it happen in the trees around you!

I want to make stuff like this. Its so beautiful seeing emergent behavior

This is amazing! I couldn't help but think about cardiac muscle and EKG waveforms. This had the equivalent of fibrillation and controlled pulses along with ectopic rhythms. Spontaneous pacemaker regions emerged, leading to global synchronization. What an incredible visualization. Thank you. :)

Far Out!! Cool use of my music... Thank you, that was a very interesting...

This is such a unique experiment. Makes me burst with scientific joy! And this is such a beauty as well. Which is another aspect of science that i highly appreciate.

Would it be possible to constrain these to a doughnut shape? It would be interesting to see the emergent behavior in a circular motion. Especially when varying the triggering energy value or the size of the doughnut (as I would think they would have similar effects given the triggering that would wave around the circular track).

how does one firefly going off charge a neighbouring one in reality?

This is really beautiful. Can happily just stare at this XD

w o l f r a m p h y s i c s videos like this, are proof enough, that simple rules = the universe

1:30 - 2:00 why do i think of Vtach ( the average charge )

will they synchronize if speed of light is limited?

What sort of performance do you get here with python? Are these real time or rendered afterwards? Very nice video 😊

Notice, how when the behavior reaches criticality, it changes from what was once random, to almost pure periodic behavior. Reminiscent of a heartbeat. Is it not reasonable, that lifeless atoms, can create something as complex as a heart, with simple rules like this one. Also notice, that in this video, what you are seeing concretely, is a DECREASE in entropy (enthalpy) happening, for a system that is at a thermal equilibrium. Modern science would claim such processes are "impossible" and would claim that such a system can not do meaningful work, and yet here we see a system, clearly able to change to a lower entropy state that can do something useful. There are many rules that do stuff like this, that can transform random states, to complex, patterned, or uniform, lower entropy states. Again it's more evidence that shows how far off the mark modern science is, and how on track the wolfram model is with how our universe works. Cheers and thanks for the great video

this is so cool! keep up the great work!

The motion of the fireflies...is it a coded version of Brownian motion? Or something else?

I've tried to implement something like this in Processing, but am struggling to achieve global synchronisation no matter how I tinker with the environment variables. I suspect it may be something to do with how charge is handled. In my code, each firefly has a random chance to add to their charge, which is what provides the initial pulse. This leads to some quite nice local synchronisation patterns, but I haven't managed to get them all totally in sync in the wave-like pattern you have got. Do your fireflies have a random chance to increase their charge, or does it just increase by a fixed amount over time?

Very cool... love the effect.

I came here from veritasium :)

The top graph doesn’t do well with missing data points - oh, I know those diagonal slashes well.

What his the difference between spontaneous synchronization and entrainment?

And this is how pacemaker cells in the heart keep their beet.