Agents evacuate a room through narrow exits using social force dynamics. Watch bottlenecks form, the "faster-is-slower" effect emerge, and see how exit placement affects evacuation time.
Social force model (Helbing & Molnár, 1995): agents feel repulsive forces from walls and other agents, while being attracted toward the nearest exit.
Adjust agent count, desired speed and exit width. Watch the "faster-is-slower" paradox — higher desired speeds create more congestion at exits.
Dirk Helbing discovered that placing a column slightly before an exit actually speeds up evacuation — it breaks the arch-shaped clogging pattern. This counterintuitive finding now influences building design.