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State-of-the-art particle-based crowd methods assume and aim for collision-free trajectories. That is an idealistic yet not overly realistic expectation, as near-collisions increase in dense and rushed settings compared with typically sparse pedestrian scenarios. Centroidal particle dynamics (CPD) is a method we defined that explicitly models the compressible personal space area surrounding each entity to inform its local pathing and collision-avoidance decisions. We illustrate how our proposed agent-based method for local dynamics can reproduce several key emergent dense crowd phenomena at the microscopic level with higher congruence to real trajectory data and with more visually convincing collision-avoidance paths than the existing state of the art. 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