Fear and the behaviour of virtual flocking animals

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Delgado-Mata;Ruth S. Aylett

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Bonaterra, Aguascalientes, México and Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK;Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The paper investigates the role of an affective system as part of an ethologically-inspired action-selection mechanism for virtual animals in a 3D interactive graphics environment. It discusses the integration of emotion with flocking and grazing behaviours and a mechanism for communicating emotion between animals; develops a metric for analyzing the collective behaviour of the animals and its complexity and shows that emotion reduces the complexity of behaviour and thus mediates between individual and collective behaviour.