The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
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So, you’ve decided to model! In my case, a crowd model. I want to simulate it. What do I do? Create my own engine, or start researching all the engines and tools out in the world, and use one off-the-shelf. Well, there are several factors to consider:W…
Continue reading »So Google has released an invitation-based beta of their new Google Maps version for 2013, at their developer conference (I/O) last week. I’ve been trying it out over the last few days. Compare the new version above, with the old version at the bottom of this post. The good: The new fonts used look great. […]
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The UCL Urban Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary initiative that links various research interest in urban issues, from infrastructure to the way they are expressed in art, films and photography. The Urban Laboratory has just published its first Urban Pamphleteer which aim to ‘confront key contemporary urban questions from diverse perspectives. Written in a direct and accessible […]
Most government statistics are mapped according to offi […]
Continue reading »Games engines such as Unity are the perfect platform for agent based modelling, they allow a combination of 3D urban cityscapes and navmeshes/grid graphs/point graphs and local avoidance systems. The A* Pathfinding project features an array of techniques for rapid pathfinding or AI development using a low memory footprint. We…
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Having failed to find a useful working example of a Processing script that incorporates typical navigation functionality into a 3D model, I’ve had to develop one myself for a project I’m working on. Although not rocket science (3D developers will of course know all this), I found the mathematics slightly tricky and it took a […]
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Having failed to find a useful working example of a Processing script that incorporates typical navigation functionality into a 3D model, I’ve had to develop one myself for a project I’m working on. Although not rocket science (3D developers will of course know all this), I found the mathematics slightly tricky and it took a […]
Continue reading »Creating a sandbox style traffic system in Unity is a challenge. As our previous posts have shown agents can use NavMesh and calculate shortest paths but the hit is high on processing which in turn limits the number of agents in a scene. Sander van der Vegte is a multidisciplinary game developer who…
Continue reading »Map design and cartography are now, more than ever, see […]
Continue reading »I’ve been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog…
Continue reading »I’ve been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog…
Continue reading »I’ve been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog…
Continue reading »I’ve been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog…
Continue reading »I’ve been using this blog on and off over the years. A big reason is the type of content I wanted the blog to focus on. The title of the blog can create an expectation of what you may find. Giving you, the readers, an idea of what I would like the blog…
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Following on from a previous post on agent-based modeling and elections. Here we show geo-located tweets during the day of President Obama’s inauguration 2013-01-21. If you want to explore what people are currently saying about President Obama check ou…
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Following on from a previous post on agent-based modeling and elections. Here we show geo-located tweets during the day of President Obama’s inauguration 2013-01-21. If you want to explore what people are currently saying about President Obama check ou…
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Omar Guerrero and Robert Axtell from the Department of Computational Social Science at GMU have recently published a paper in PLoS ONE entitled “Employment Growth through Labor Flow Networks.” The work uses “newly available micro-data and the abi…
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Omar Guerrero and Robert Axtell from the Department of Computational Social Science at GMU have recently published a paper in PLoS ONE entitled “Employment Growth through Labor Flow Networks.” The work uses “newly available micro-data and the abi…
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Ever wondered if agent-based models have been applied to look at elections? I recently came across a nice little NetLogo model by Michael Laver which is part of the book “Party competition: an agent based model” (2012). This simple model allo…
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Ever wondered if agent-based models have been applied to look at elections? I recently came across a nice little NetLogo model by Michael Laver which is part of the book “Party competition: an agent based model” (2012). This simple model allo…
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What It’s Like To Be A Student At Singularity University — An Insider’s Story
Singularity Hub Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville, Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. His recent research focuses on technological singularity. In addition to his affiliation with SU, Dr. Yampolskiy … |
Singularity Hub |
What It’s Like To Be A Student At Singularity University — An Insider’s Story
Singularity Hub Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville, Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. His recent research focuses on technological singularity. In addition to his affiliation with SU, Dr. Yampolskiy … |
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Continue reading »Short, sharp discussion of smart cities at Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute (this afternoon, May 8th starting at 1pm) with a talk by myself which mirrors my talk to the AGI a couple of months ago in Edinburgh (click here … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve missed puzzles. I’ve been too busy recently ‘working’ and ‘being a grown up’ to play with any. But this week CASA’s @frogo has lined me up with a couple of absolute […]
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As a followup to last week’s post about universit […]
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Continue reading »Kings College London – 5th June 2013
Continue reading »As I’ve noted in the previous post, I have just attended CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) conference for the first time. It’s a fairly big conference, with over 3000 participants, multiple tracks that evolved over the 30 years that CHI have been going, including the familiar paper presentations, panels, posters and courses, but also the less familiar […]
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Continue reading »The natural conclusion of our recent posts on Unity and CityEngine is of course a physics/navmesh police chase with the agent target being a drag and drop ball. We will release a version next week on the win/mac platforms for those interested – the aim was to explore shortest path…
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