Sketch to author crowd animations

Davy 19 Jul 2011

My last year internship was a research project about crowd simulation. The idea was to not focus on simulation but on user control over the crowd. Some research has explored user control techniques that involve using a ‘brush tool’ (similar to a paint brush) or pre-labelling areas of the environment or using a sketch-based approach.

The solution developed is a sketch-based interface to author crowd animation. A user can sketch the boundaries of crowd formations and the crowd moves from one formation to another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1bbHNOGFlA

The next step will be to introduce more patterns to fill the formation and add a path to follow in-between formations.

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