Re: Modeling of Crowd Behavior

[Jan Kreft]

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Brian Ruth (CBNED/SMSB) <address@hidden> wrote:
 
> I'm currently a Swarm user wannabe (I'm waiting for the source+binary
> release for SGIs), but I have looked a bit into modeling crowd behavior.
> Dana Eckart of Radford University and I are currently developing a
> cellular automata model, using his Cellular simulation system (available
> at
> 
>       http://rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu/~dana/ca/cellular.html),
> 
> which demonstrates the emergence of panic within a unit of soldiers when
> exposed to one or more battlefield threats.  The model determines whether
> a particular soldier will panic by assigning a probability of panic
> conditional on the number of wounded and/or panicking neighbors within the
> soldier's extended Moore neighborhood (21 x 21 cells on a 2D lattice),
> and then performs a random draw to determine the soldier's panic state
> (panicking/not panicking).  Flocking behavior is also considered within
> the unit (for non-panicking soldiers only) , where a soldier's speed and
> direction of travel is determined by that of his neighbors.  

Why shouldn't panicking soldiers flock as well? Don't people who flock
panic and people who panic flock?

Just wondering,

Jan.



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