A Specific System Design for Crowd Simulation

Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both rendering visually plausible images of the virtual world and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. The sum of these two requirements results in a computational cost that exponentially increases with the number of agents in the system. Thus, crowd simulation requires a scalable design that can handle large simulations in a feasible way. In this paper, we propose a system design that can manage the simulation of large crowds of autonomous agents at interactive rates.