Seminar Details
| Date |
6-7-2011 |
| Time |
14:00 |
| Room/Location |
DISI-Sala Conferenze III piano |
| Title |
Sketch-based specification of procedural terrain and cities |
| Speaker |
Dr. Patrick Marais |
| Affiliation |
PhD, Senior lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Cape Town |
| Link |
https://www.disi.unige.it/index.php?eventsandseminars/seminars
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| Abstract |
The generation of 3D content for virtual environments can be a tedious process which consumes many hours and requires a great deal of human resources. Procedural methods provide a possible alternative, allowing the creation of a many different models from a small set of parameters. Unfortunately, choosing parameters to generate the desired variation or a specific result is not.
This is particularly evident for many procedural terrain generation, where one is either forced to model real terrain or to accept some natural-looking proxy which doesn't quite match what you want. Alternatively, one can forgo the use of parameters and instead infer these from some kind of "user sketch". Sketching has a long history as a means of specifying high-level features in 2D representations, and has already been adapted to serve as a 3D modeling interface.
In this talk I discuss past and present work that we have undertaken on the use of sketching interfaces as a means of controlling the procedural generation of terrains and cities.
I will describe our first attempts at terrain specification, before briefly covering some of the new work our group has done in this area. Finally, I will present some discussion and preliminary results from work we are currently completing on city generation.
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