A Layered Communication Model for Agents in Virtual Crowds
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Creating realistic virtual crowds consisting of autonomous agents that display different behavioral characteristics is a challenge in crowd simulation. This work is based on the intuition that modeling inter-agent communication can improve the sense of realism for both individual agents and the crowd. This paper summarizes issues related to development of a communication model for virtual crowds and provides some experimental results.
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