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(a)
(b)
FIGURE 4.7
Creating buildings in Google SketchUp and viewing them in OpenSim. (a) Initial floor plan
from a CAD file, (b) building the internal and external structure of the building.
increasingly being challenged to develop innovative uses for spaces but who do not know how people will
use such spaces. Combining the architectural model with an agent-based model of human behaviour*
allows one to explore how people might use the space. For example, we can explore how pedestrians in
the form of agents use a space while exiting a building in an emergency (Crooks et al., 2009).
*
See Crooks and Heppenstall (2012) and Benenson (2014) for a detailed explanation of agent-based modelling.
