Leader-controlled group animation systems

Recent works in computer animation field are focused on the use of intelligent agents ? which can percieve their environment, make sensible decisions and act as a result of these decisions ? rather than using of the pre-scripted animation techniques. Realistic animation sequences can be achieved with the use of intelligent agents and these techniques are also known as behavioral animation techniques.The lack of an efficient group member-leader relationship model in the recent works on flock animation subject and the potential need in this field forms the motivation for this thesis. A new leader controlled group model has been developed with introducing a new leadership model and the leader controlled movement of group members has been achieved. With the suggested flexible and changeable leadership model, it?s possible to detect and solve congestion problems of flock animations by triggering leadership change algorithms. Also disintegration of groups into smaller groups and reintegration of these groups during the animation have been supported with introducing a new grouping algorithm and interaction between these different groups has also been achieved by means of group members and group leaders.Keywords: Flock animation, intelligent agent, leadership, group, congestion, group clustering.