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The Explicit Corridor Map: Using the Medial Axis for Real-Time Path Planning and Crowd Simulation
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32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016)
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- Publication Date: 2016-06-10
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Wouter van Toll, Atlas F. Cook IV, Marc van Kreveld, and Roland Geraerts. The Explicit Corridor Map: Using the Medial Axis for Real-Time Path Planning and Crowd Simulation. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 70:1-70:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.70
Abstract
We describe and demonstrate the Explicit Corridor Map (ECM), a navigation mesh for path planning and crowd simulation in virtual environments. For a bounded 2D environment with polygonal obstacles, the ECM is the medial axis of the free space annotated with nearest-obstacle information. It can be used to compute short and smooth paths for disk-shaped characters of any radius. It is also well-defined for multi-layered 3D environments that consist of connected planar layers. We highlight various operations on the ECM, such as dynamic updates, visibility queries, and the computation of paths (indicative routes). We have implemented the ECM as the basis of a real-time crowd simulation framework with path following and collision avoidance. Our implementation has been successfully used to simulate real-life events involving large crowds of heterogeneous characters. The enclosed demo application displays various features of our software.
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- Medial axis
- Navigation mesh
- Path planning
- Crowd simulation
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