Simulating the motion of realistic, large, dense crowds of autonomous agents is still a
challenge for the computer graphics community. Typical approaches either resemble …

This article considers animating evacuation in complex buildings by crowds who might not
know the structure's connectivity, or who find routes accidentally blocked. It takes into …

Crowd simulation for virtual environments offers many challenges centered on the trade‐offs
between rich behavior, control and computational cost. In this paper we present a new …

In this paper we present a user-centered design approach to the development of a Virtual
Environment (VE), by utilizing an iterative, user-informed process throughout the entire …

In games, entertainment, medical and architectural applications, the creation of populated
virtual city environments has recently become widespread. In this paper we want to provide …

Crowds and other flock-like group motion are often modeled as interacting particle systems.
These multi-agent simulations are computationally expensive because each agent must …

The ever‐increasing applicability of interactive virtual worlds in industry and academia has
given rise to the need for robust, versatile autonomous virtual humans to inject life into these …

Crowd simulation models are currently lacking a commonly accepted validation method. In
this paper, we propose level of presence achieved by a human in a virtual environment (VE) …

We demonstrate how the use of a multicomputer can greatly accelerate the speed of a
pedestrian movement simulator based on the social forces model. Our objective is to …

Real‐time crowd visualization has recently attracted quite an interest from the graphics
community and, asinteractive applications become even more complex, there is a natural …