Controlled procedural terrain generation using software agents

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-119

  Doran, Jonathon ^a   Parberry, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; procedural content generation; terrain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAME; CONTROLLABLE SYSTEMS; PROCEDURAL TERRAIN GENERATION; TERRAIN ELEVATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 77955006113     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2049020     Document Type: Article

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