(updated 2018)
EvacSim is a massive crowd simulation developed for the 2006-2007 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Southeastern Regional Initiative (SERI) grant at the University of Southern Mississippi by Matthew Bennett, Mike William Johnson, and Mike Erwin (significant_bit on github).
The simulation is used in training exercises for stadium and sports security personel as well as "what if" analysis. It was very advanced for the time, able to simulate 100000 simultaneous physically simulated flocking agents in egress from a stadium or surrounding areas such as roadways.
The project took first prize out of 14 projects and secured SERI grant funding for two years.
For an idea of what this looks like, whatch this short video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNIrYu38E4E
March, 2008
EvacSim 0.1
Requirements:
microsoft windows XP, Vista, or Redhat linux 4 compatible operating system 2 GB RAM 2 GHz or higher processor 3d-accelerated graphics. Phys-X PCI accelerator card also supported. 2 GB disk space
Version history: (odd versions are development versions)
0.1 Initial release features:
explosions basic scripting multiple cameras OBJ loader for navmeshes exported from Google Sketchup OBJ loader for 3d decorative models exported from Google Sketchup vision occlusion cylindrical physical approximation of bodies box physical approximation of walls physical accuracy levels rendering to jpeg video post-compiling (with VirtualDub) near-real time mode for
The last time this project was built, it was with MinGW and the IDE Dev-C++ on windows XP in 2006. It was cross-compiled to work on linux, approximately Fedora 5, and used OpenGL 1.2 and ODE. This needs updating, obviously. New target (2018) might be something like cmake running on Centos 7 plus windows 7, along with more modern OpenGL and C++ compiler.
cmake-ify make it run on windows and linux again Remove any dependencies on hard to find or old libraries such as ODE and older SDL / OpenGL instances Remove any Dev-C++ specific build artifacts Make some new videos with modern graphics hardware, not the 2004-ish NVidia cards that were used for the older videos