Procedural modeling of cities Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:163690, 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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Parish, Yoav I. H. and M\"{u}ller, Pascal}, booktitle = {SIGGRAPH '01: Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques}, citeulike-article-id = {163690}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383259.383292}, doi = {10.1145/383259.383292}, isbn = {158113374X}, keywords = {city, generation, model, procedural}, pages = {301--308}, posted-at = {2008-07-07 11:37:38}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Procedural modeling of cities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383259.383292}, year = {2001} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:163690 L3 - citeulike-article-id:163690 N2 - 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. SN - 158113374X AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 308 TI - Procedural modeling of cities PB - ACM Press T2 - SIGGRAPH '01: Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques SP - 301 KW - city KW - generation KW - model KW - procedural AU - Parish, Yoav AU - Müller, Pascal PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/383259.383292 ER -