# Fireflies

**Repository Path**: mirrors_fogleman/Fireflies

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: Fireflies
- **Description**: Synchronizing fireflies using JavaScript and D3.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-11-23
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-05

## Categories & Tags

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## README

## Synchronizing Fireflies

http://www.michaelfogleman.com/static/fireflies/

An experiment inspired by the book "Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life" by Steven H. Strogatz.

Each cell flashes every few seconds. The cells influence each other in such a way that they will all eventually synchronize, as do some species of fireflies.

The cells charge following a logaritmic curve similar to that of a charging capacitor, firing upon reaching a threshold. This affects neighboring cells by a factor proportional to the inverse of their squared distance. The cells need not have identical individual frequencies to reach sychronization.

This is a JavaScript port of code that I originally wrote in Python and C. The old code can be found here: https://github.com/fogleman/Sync