TITLE: Frogs in a Blender, Turtles in Processing: stirring an agent-based modeling stew using Blender3D, Processing, and Netlogo on a stadium evacuation project
SPEAKERS: Joshua Thorp Stephen Guerin Owen Densmore (in spirit from Ireland) AFFILIATION: RedfishGroup LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room TIME: Wed June 21, 12:30p Lunch will be available for purchase ABSTRACT Primarily a tech review about our recent experiences melding Blender3D (http://www.blender3d.org) with Processing (http://www.processing.org) for an agent-based modeling production pipeline. Netlogo-like language constructs were developed in Processing for use in the interactive real-time models using 50,000 agents. Blender3D was used for stadium modeling and offline 3D animation/rendering on a 730 CPU renderfarm. We'll demonstrate the pipeline in the context of a Homeland Security project visualizing crowd dynamics arising from simulated suicide bomb attacks at Pittsburgh's PNC baseball Stadium. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
