Tree Paths
A New Model for Steering Behaviors
5119
Paper
published in 2009
by Rafael Araújo Rodrigues, Alessandro de Lima Bicho, Marcelo Paravisi, Cláudio Rosito Jung, Léo Pini Magalhães and Soraia Raupp Musse
in
Agent identity,
Cultural awareness
This paper describes a model for generating steering behaviors of groups of characters based on the biologically-motivated space colonization algorithm. This algorithm has been used in the past for generating leaf venation patterns and tree structures, simulating the competition for space between growing veins or branches. Adapted to character animation, this model is responsible for the motion control of characters providing robust and realistic group behaviors by adjusting just a few parameters. The main contributions are related with the robustness, flexibility and simplicity to control groups of characters.