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Procedural modeling of cities
Abstract
Modeling a city poses a number of problems to computer graphics. Every urban area has a transportation network that follows population and environmental influences, and often a superimposed pattern plan. The buildings appearances follow historical, aesthetic and statutory rules. To create a virtual city, a roadmap has to be designed and a large number of buildings need to be generated. We propose a system using a procedural approach based on L-systems to model cities. From various image maps given as input, such as land-water boundaries and population density, our system generates a system of highways and streets, divides the land into lots, and creates the appropriate geometry for the buildings on the respective allotments. For the creation of a city street map, L-systems have been extended with methods that allow the consideration of global goals and local constraints and reduce the complexity of the production rules. An L-system that generates geometry and a texturing system based on texture elements and procedural methods compose the buildings.
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- Authors
- Parish, Y. I. H., & Müller, P.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2001-08
- Pages
- 301-308
- OpenAlex
- W4205503054
- Cited by
- 676
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 2.88
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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