When is a System Complex? University of Cambridge

Flocking birds, weather patterns, commercial organisations, swarming robots… Increasingly, many of the systems that we want to engineer or understand are said to be ‘complex’. But what does this mean? How do these so-called ‘complex systems’ differ from the more easily understood systems that we are familiar with?

Cambridge Filmworks have worked with the University of Cambridge to help produce a brand new animation exploring complex systems.

To find out more on complexity and modularity, please visit: http://complexityprimer.eng.cam.ac.uk/