[pimlottc]

This answers the title question but the most interesting part about the article is the fascinating way in which the locust’s behavior is triggered by crowding. An amazing biological adaption.

It’s well-worth reading the whole thing.

[knollimar]

It was until the animated insects. I threw my phone

[explosion-s]

Sorry guys haha!! I intended the insects to come without prompting only on scroll pause but for debug purposes of the article I had set them to once every 15ish seconds[0]. I thought it was really great and love it personally as it really gets the AAA factor in, though I should probably respect use-reduced-motion lol

[0]: https://github.com/Explosion-Scratch/locusts/blob/main/src/c...

[x______________]

There's something about those animated hoppers that fills me with nostalgia about the early web.

Maybe prompt the user if they like bugs and then add the auto-hop (and more) bugs to those who say yes?!

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Random yet on topic, I found[0] the tiniest hopper I've ever seen today hitching a ride on my hoodie!

[0]https://i.ibb.co/Y4nwnpgP/Screenshot-20260601-165536-Gallery...

[srean]

Loved them. Wish they were more realistically animated :)

[FarmerPotato]

Gotta give credit, the gimmick is not superfluous.

I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!

[AndrewKemendo]

This was exactly my response

[lenkite]

Jesus, that was a shocker for sure. I slapped my screen in reflex.

[brikym]

I couldn't help but think office politics is a bit like that. Over populate a company or starve employees of opportunities and thy will be less helpful to each other and more focused on self-promotion politics.

[explosion-s]

I know right! It was a super interesting rabbit hole of mine while writing this to discover how boids simulations work, I'm personally very interested in whatever the mathematics of simple rules giving rise to complex and chaotic systems is. It'd be very interesting to do an article about the population dynamics and such of locusts (esp tying into general math).

I love what a gnash equilibrium (I think) it is of their behavior - and really funny, the constant march of canibalism haha

[awesome_dude]

It's this that always makes me laugh - right wing people demanding people act like teams, and work for the common good...

[HappMacDonald]

Well, prisoner's dilemma defectors demanding that everyone else cooperate, obviously.

[hactually]

right wing?

[awesome_dude]

Absolutely - Right Wing core theorem is that people work as individuals - competition brings out the best, only the fittest/fastest/strongest will survive.