The algorithmic beauty of plants
The algorithmic beauty of plants
Methods for realistic landscape imaging
Methods for realistic landscape imaging
Realistic modeling and rendering of plant ecosystems
Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
SIGGRAPH '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach
Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach
Generating enhanced natural environments and terrain for interactive combat simulations (GENETICS)
Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Terrain Synthesis from Digital Elevation Models
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Procedural Urban Modeling in Practice
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Interactive GPU-based procedural heightfield brushes
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games
Integrating procedural generation and manual editing of virtual worlds
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Procedural Content Generation in Games
A formal framework for declarative scene description transformation into geometric constraints
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
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Military training instructors increasingly often employ computer games to train soldiers in all sorts of skills and tactics. One of the difficulties instructors face when using games as a training tool is the creation of suitable content, including scenarios, entities, and corresponding terrain models. Terrain plays a key role in many military training games, as for example, in our case game Tactical Air Defense. However, current manual terrain editors are both too complex and too time-consuming to be useful for instructors; automatic terrain generation methods show a lot of potential, but still lack user control and intuitive editing capabilities. We present a novel way for instructors to model terrain for their training games: instead of constructing a terrain model using complex modeling tools, instructors can declare the required properties of their terrain using an advanced sketching interface. Our framework integrates terrain generation methods and manages dependencies between terrain features in order to automatically create a complete 3D terrain model that matches the sketch. With our framework, instructors can easily design a large variety of terrain models that meet their training requirements.