This is a simple simulation of group dynamics. the table represents a common meeting place, like a bar or food table which generally attracts guests. Each person likes to be in a certain distance to any of the other guests, which results in dynamic movements of the guests.
This simulation is inspired by Rich Gold's (Richard Goldstein) Party Planner from 1982, which used a 20x30 grid and plotted every simulation step onto a piece of paper.
PartySim (2014) uses the ideal distances of each guest (and also their names) from Rich Golds Program. For more info on the original Party Planner from 1982 see:
- Richard Goldstein, The Plenitude, 2002, http://hci.stanford.edu/dschool/resources/ThePlenitude.pdf , p. 91-94
- Inge Hinterwaldner, Das systemische Bild, Munich 2010, p. 214-221