Real-Time Navigating Crowds

This paper introduces a framework for real-time simulation and rendering of crowds navigating in a virtual environment. The solution first consists in a specific environment preprocessing technique giving rise to navigation graphs, which are then used by the navigation and simulation tasks. Second, navigation planning interactively provides various solutions to the user queries, allowing to spread a crowd by individualizing trajectories. A scalable simulation model enables the management of large crowds, while saving computation time for rendering tasks. Pedestrian graphical models are divided into three rendering fidelities ranging from billboards to dynamic meshes, allowing close-up views of detailed digital actors with a large variety of locomotion animations. Examples illustrate our method in several environments with crowds of up to 35'000 pedestrians with real-time performance.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Computer
• Graphics
• Real-Time
• Rendering
• Crowds

[Draxius]

LOL. Mindless people walking on a infinity symbol in the middle of space forever. Twilight zone anyone.

[peabnuts123]

Wow! Amazing work, well done!

[ketamunke]

I'm going to watch this as I go to sleep today. It's very entrancing. Thanks for the video.

[michael2420]

Very Pretty. Though seems to be little collision avoidance and a lot of mesh overlapping :(

[Kamica666]

Does anyone of you know a crowd simulation... anything for free?

[kinderanim]

Good job !!!!

[sacul109498]

so very amazing, congrats!