A declarative approach to procedural modeling of virtual worlds

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 352-363

  Smelik, R M ^a   Tutenel, T ^b   De Kraker, K J ^a   Bidarra, R ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consistency maintenance; Declarative modeling; Procedural methods; Procedural sketching; Semantic modeling; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LANDFORMS; MAINTENANCE; SEMANTICS;

CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; DECLARATIVE MODELS; PROCEDURAL METHODS; PROCEDURAL SKETCHING; SEMANTIC MODEL; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79952763238     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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