Efficient Mesoscopic Simulations for Persistent Agents in 3D-Applications and Games

Gone But Not Forgotten

“…These results suggest that the system presented in [Dettmar et al 2013] could be applied to open world environments, like Marvel's Spider-Man. The size of the road traffic network of New York City's borough Manhattan (4,493 nodes), which is the setting for the game, is well below the 15,000 node threshold.…”

“…This approach saves computational resources, but lacks persistence as agents are constantly removed from and added to the simulation instead of being continuously simulated. This type of simulation can cause inconsistent situations for a user [Dettmar et al 2013].…”

“…The system proposed by the authors' research group represents a hybrid approach, applying a LOD methodology to simulating IVA in road traffic scenarios; one aspect of this system is a mesoscopic traffic simulation [Dettmar et al 2013]. Currently, our mesoscopic traffic agents are a snapshot of their IVA counterparts; reduced in their abilities and behaviours.…”

“…They are connected by two directed edges representing a two-way street. Image is based on reference [Dettmar et al 2013].…”

Integration of road network logics into virtual environments

“…The first approach is a mesoscopic approach based on a queueing system (cf. [2]) which is integrated in the road and junction elements. Vehicles are moved through the network in form of packets containing information that needs to be preserved.…”