Duplicating road patterns in South African informal settlements using procedural techniques

ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Visualisation in Africa

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 161-169

  Glass, Kevin R ^a   Morkel, Chantelle ^a   Bangay, Shaun D ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

City modeling; Informal settlement; L systems; Procedural modeling; Subdivision; Voronoi

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PATTERN MATCHING; ROADS AND STREETS; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; URBAN PLANNING;

CITY MODELING; PROCEDURAL MODELING; ROAD PATTERNS; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34247275240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1108590.1108616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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