Issue No.04 - July/August (2002 vol.22)
When ducks swim on a smooth deep lake, they create a V-shaped ripple of waves behind them. Boats and ships do the same thing, as do human swimmers. I saw a duck swimming across a glass-smooth pond a few weeks ago, and I wondered what it might be like if I could choreograph a flock of trained ducks to swim as I wanted. Could the ducks be induced to make interesting patterns out of their overlapping wakes?
Andrew Glassner's, "Duck!", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol.22, no. 4, pp. 88-97, July/August 2002, doi:10.1109/MCG.2002.1016702