The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Model design is one of the most important stages of the development of any agent-based model. Get the design wrong and you might find yourself tied up in knots, battling against the structure of the project you defined months before. Get it right and you’ll leave yourself a extensible platform to develop into, allowing yourself …
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UCLive is an Augmented Reality Map of UCL developed by students on the Masters in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation at CASA. Featuring live data, the augmented reality android app works by simply pointing your mobile device at any of the UCL maps across campus. Running in Unity and mixing a number of GIS and…
Another week gone sees the emergence of a pattern in my research: loads of great ideas, loads of terrible software design decisions, and loads of late nights trying to implement the former despite the latter. This week’s Agent-Based fun has … Continue reading →
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It’s been a frantic few days here at CASA in London. After several post-eleven o’clock ends to the working day, I’ve finally managed to get a slightly more interesting version of my agent-based model up and running. This time the … Continue reading →
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In my first experiences of making an ABM, I’ve been surprised by how slowly a seemingly simple Java program can run. This led me to look at how to profile a running Java application to see where it’s spending most … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Just a short missive this time, to mention that I’ve sped up my “world’s dumbest Agent-Based Model” by a factor of around fifty by having the calculation of the model and the display of the model (using Processing) happen in … Continue reading →
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So, the focus has shifted a little bit here at CASA in London. I’m trying to design an agent-based modelling system that is as generic as possible in its construction, using Java for the Object model and Processing for the … Continue reading →
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
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Below we provide full details for 2012 entry on the new MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation (ASAV). The course reflects the current state of play in geographic, urban and architectural information systems with an emphasis on visual…
Continue reading »We are pleased to announce the availability of six fellowships are available to support individuals in non-academic institutions to undertake defined research projects at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds or the Centr…
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »The BBC’s science series ‘Bang goes the Theory’ recently had an episode on crowd behaviour. It shows a fascinating way of getting plenty of research out there into the public eye, using very short clips of research taking place based on certain themes….
Continue reading »‘Modelling Movement in the City: The Influence of Individuals’ was the title of a talk I gave at the AGILE conference in Avignon, France last week. For the conference I actually initially prepared a poster that never ended up seeing the light of d…
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Crowd, transport and urban simulations are at their roots down to ‘Agents’ or ‘Objects’ that are assigned a set of rules as to how to moves in relation to both the environment and other agents around them. 3D Studio Max has a built in ‘Crowd and De…
Continue reading »Crowd, transport and urban simulations are at their roots down to ‘Agents’ or ‘Objects’ that are assigned a set of rules as to how to moves in relation to both the environment and other agents around them. 3D Studio Max has a built in ‘Crowd and De…
Continue reading »Our work on Unity stalled for a while due to another projects and deadlines, but we are back on the case from next week with the aim of providing a quick and easy route to visualise agent based models with an urban theme . The movie below details where we…
Based on the pseudocode for the Netlogo to 3DMax implementation, I have now decided to post a short tutorial on exporting the Netlogo traffic simulation to 3DMax. This tutorial will mainly cover the output of the turtles and visualising it in 3DMax. Ne…
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