Gain, James and Merry, Bruce and Marais, Patrick (2015) Parallel, Realistic and Controllable Terrain Synthesis, Computer Graphics Forum, 34, 105-116, Wiley.
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The challenge in terrain synthesis for virtual environments is to provide a combination of precise user control over landscape form, with interactive response and visually realistic results. We present a system that builds on parallel pixel-based texture synthesis to enable interactive creation of an output terrain from a database of heightfield exemplars. We also provide modelers with control over height and surrounding slope by means of constraint points and curves; a paint-by-numbers interface for specifying the local character of terrain; coherence controls that allow localization of changes to the synthesized terrain; and copy-paste functionality to directly transplant terrain regions. Together these contributions provide a level of realism that, based on user experiments, is indistinguishable from real source terrains; user control sufficient for precise placement of a variety of landforms, such as cliffs, ravines and mesas; and synthesis times of 165ms for a 1024^2 terrain grid.
| Item Type: | Journal article (paginated) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | terrain synthesis, constraints, sketching, DEM |
| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Computer graphics |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1059 |
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