Procedural modeling of structurally-sound masonry buildings

  • Authors:
  • Emily Whiting;John Ochsendorf;Frédo Durand

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce structural feasibility into procedural modeling of buildings. This allows for more realistic structural models that can be interacted with in physical simulations. While existing structural analysis tools focus heavily on providing an analysis of the stress state, our proposed method automatically tunes a set of designated free parameters to obtain forms that are structurally sound.