A physically-based particle model of emergent crowd behaviors

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This paper presents a modeling process in order to produce a realistic simulation of crowds in the ancient Greek agora of Argos.

• This place was a social theater in which two kinds of collective phenomena took place: interpersonal interactions (small group discussion and negotiation, etc.) and global collective phenomena, such as flowing and jamming.
• In this paper, we focus on the second type of collective human phenomena, called non-deliberative emergent crowd phenomena.
• This is a typical case of collective emergent self-organization.