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Out of Context Augmented Navfields: Designing Crowd Choreographies

Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7522)

Abstract

This paper presents a way to dynamically influence the shape and movements of a simulated crowd. We propose a tool and system that allows to modify a crowd’s dynamics in an intuitive, semantically rich and out of context fashion, while being independent from the global path finding architecture and having a low computational cost. We follow a mixed approach where user-specified navigation fields are combined with steering and global A* pathfinding.

Keywords

crowd choreography navfield simulation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches en Informatique du CNAMConservatoire National des Arts et MétiersParisFrance

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