Parabolic lane formation (IMAGE)

University of Bath

Parabolic lane formation

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Parabolic lane formation captured in a human crowd experiment. The red group crosses the experimental arena ‘south to north’, and the blue group targets a narrow gate on the side. In agreement with the theory, the crowd spontaneously self-organizes into lanes shaped as (confocal) parabolas.

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Credit: K. Bacik. B. Bacik, T. Rogers

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