Hello, I’ve been playing with this idea where you could use kangaroo 2 as a very simple crowd simulator. The method is simple: lock a point to a curve and give it a load in the tangent direction of the closet point on said curve. After that, mix in some circles/collisions/boundaries and different s…

Here’s an example of that custom Goal pulling points along the tangent of the closest point on a curve: pull_tangent.gh (18.9 KB)

Kangaroo as Simple Crowd Simulator

diff-arch (diff-arch) March 31, 2025, 7:38pm 2

Hi,

Not exactly made with Kangaroo, but potentially interesting for you and a through-back to 2019.

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