Testing Firefly Sync in Russia

Controlling dozens of LED lights inside Nikolay Polissky’s Universal Mind sculpture in Nikola Lenivets, Russia using a custom jitter patch that simulates synchronizing fireflies. see 5 CHOB for the final artwork, synchronizing firefly simulation for the MaxMSP Jitter patch and firefly

Fireflies sync

two beautiful videos sent to me by mariko montpetit showing a population of fireflies synchronizing through a mechanism of self-organization