Generating consistent buildings: A semantic approach for integrating procedural techniques

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-288

  Tutenel, Tim ^a   Smelik, Ruben M ^b   Lopes, Ricardo ^a   De Kraker, Klaas Jan ^b   Bidarra, Rafael ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fa ade shape grammars; floor plan generation techniques; procedural modeling of buildings; semantic modeling

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ELEMENT; COMPUTER GAME; CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; FLOOR PLAN GENERATION TECHNIQUES; FLOORPLANS; GAMEPLAY; SEMANTIC APPROACH; SEMANTIC CLASS; SEMANTIC MODELING; SHAPE GRAMMARS; VIRTUAL CITIES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

BUILDING COMPONENTS; FLOORS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SEMANTICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

EID: 80052905461     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2011.2162842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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