Re: [Swarm-Modelling] newbie question

[Vitorino RAMOS]

At 04:30 01-02-2004, you wrote:
> Thanks for pointing out newer projects such as JAS and RePast. This however
> complicates my task of finding the most suitable tool for my project.
>
> This project is far less ambitious in terms of modelling complex behaviour,
> however, it is very important to be able to create a really good animation on
> top of a bitmap image of a transport infrastructure (roads, rail, etc), with
> agents animated to move on fixed paths from origin to destination, and
> interacting with other, stationary agents on departure and arrival.
> Has anyone done this using Swarm, RePast, etc???
> Which tool would be *most* suitable for this task??
>
> regards,
>
> Alex.

Dear Alex.

Probably wrong, but I believe that what you are looking for is "Crowd 
Behaviour" and modelling. Check this out:

http://machen.mrl.nott.ac.uk/PublicationStore/Tech_David_Marchal_2002.pdf

Related with the "interaction" you mention, as well as using the bitmap 
image as for your "habitat", check section 2 in here, as well the rest:

http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html

best, v.




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lists, because they reduce our vision on what's essential: diversity. But 
if someone puts me on a island and obliges me to say what are the top 
future questions in science, at least on 3, I do have a clear personal 
idea. They are: Co-evolution, Metamorphosis and Self-Organization. All 
these, behind biology as we know it. I mean, they are profoundly 
interesting as processes of information", Vitorino Ramos, 2000.