The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Craig Reynolds first introduced flocking to the computer graphics area by creating the Boids artificial life simulation in 1986. It was a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks or fish schools, that allowed for collision avoida…
Continue reading »I have recently got back from Ritsumeikan University where I and my collegaue Alex Singleton were invited by Professor Keiji Yano to give a week long introduction to GIS course. As part of this teaching activity the students were set a group project to examine the geographic distribution and origins of five Japanese names. These … Continue reading SPLINT in Japan →
Continue reading »I was recently recipient of the UCL Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award 2009. This was for the UCL KTP project of the last year which showed most potential. This winning partnership was the engagement between UCL and the Camden Primary Care Trust. The project aim was to develop a geodemographic database of health and well-being in […]
Continue reading »I have recently got back from Ritsumeikan University where I and my collegaue Alex Singleton were invited by Professor Keiji Yano to give a week long introduction to GIS course. As part of this teaching activity the students were set a group project to examine the geographic distribution and origins of five Japanese names. These […]
Continue reading »I am pleased to announce that the QMRG prize for the best dissertation in quantitative geography will again be awarded in 2009 and that nominations are now invited. As in previous years, the prize is for the best dissertation in *any* area of quantitative geography, which include the application of existing techniques or the development […]
Continue reading »This is a conference sketch by Shopf, J., Oat, C., Barczak, J., presented in Siggraph Asia 2008.I’ve been talking about how I am looking into creating a crowd simulation on the GPU. The sketch states that, to their knowledge it is the first implementat…
Continue reading »As has been recently announced, Oxford circus is to get a pedestrian-friendly revamp. Here is a video of a pedestrian model, first referred to me by Duncan Smith, a PhD student at CASA. The model consists of 5000 people, where a particle-based system w…
Continue reading »This is a paper by Treuille, A. Cooper, S., and Popović, Z, presented in Siggraph 2006.It’s a real time crowd model based on continuum dynamics. The motion of crowds is controlled by a dynamic potential field, which allows it to avoid moving obstacles…
Continue reading »13th April 2009, Kyoto, Ritsumeikan University
Continue reading »As mentioned in an earlier post that I will be posting a pseudocode for a Netlogo to 3DMax implementation.This pseudocode is mainly for the Netlogo traffic simulation, but I will try and make it as general as possible in order to use in other models.Ne…
Continue reading »Two prizes came from the UCL camp at this years GISRUK. The previously mentioned “mashup”, and also the prize for the best young research paper by my student Adnan – titled: “Moving to real time segmentation: efficient computation of geodemographic cla…
Continue reading »Today was a jolly nice day with Ollie and I winning the Ordnance Survey Geospatial Mashup Challenge at GISRUK 2009. There were some really good entries and I was quite surprised with the result. One site which really impressed me was: “User Adaptive Tr…
Continue reading »I just presented this paper at GIS Research UK (GISRUK) in Durham sparking an interesting debate about ethics and use of transactional data. This is my first attempt at Keynote on OSX / Macbook – which after an initial failure at getting technology con…
Continue reading »I have just published a new working paper:
Abstract:
Computer mediated communication and the Internet has fundamentally changed how consumers and producers connect and interact across both real space, and has also opened up new opportunities in virtu…
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