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Large Scale Terrain Generation from Tectonic Uplift and Fluvial Erosion
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At large scale, landscapes result from the combination of two major processes: tectonics which generate the main relief through crust uplift, and weather which accounts for erosion. This paper presents the first method in computer graphics that combines uplift and hydraulic erosion to generate visually plausible terrains. Given a user‐painted uplift map, we generate a stream graph over the entire domain embedding elevation information and stream flow. Our approach relies on the stream power equation introduced in geology for hydraulic erosion. By combining crust uplift and stream power erosion we generate large realistic terrains at a low computational cost. Finally, we convert this graph into a digital elevation model by blending landform feature kernels whose parameters are derived from the information in the graph. Our method gives high‐level control over the large scale dendritic structures of the resulting river networks, watersheds, and mountains ridges.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cordonnier, G., Braun, J., Cani, M., Benes, B., Galin, É., Peytavie, A., & Guérin, É.
- Affiliations
- Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Purdue University West Lafayette, IN USA
- Venue
- Computer Graphics Forum
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 165-175
- ISSN
- 0167-7055 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8659
- OpenAlex
- W2267681707
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 31.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- inria.hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Computer Graphics Forum (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
- Keywords
- terrain generation, tectonic uplift, fluvial erosion, digital elevation model, river networks, mountain ridge, dendritic morphology
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