3 ms·

Procedural Modelling of Buildings [pdf]

48 points by grkvlt 11y ago

grkvlt 11y ago
This research spawned CityEngine from ESRI http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine and there are also a few more awesome papers from the same author, Pascal Muller, ex ETH and now at ESRI. - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS285/PAPERS/Parish_Muller01.pdf http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS285/PAPERS/Parish_Mul... - http://www.fdg2013.org/program/workshops/papers/PCG2013/pcg2013_3.pdf http://www.fdg2013.org/program/workshops/papers/PCG2013/pcg2... - http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2014.SG.Lipp.PushPull.pdf http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2014.SG.Lipp.PushPul... - http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/faculty/vision/zeng/pdf/MullerZWG07tog.pdf http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/faculty/vision/zeng/pdf/MullerZWG0... See also Rome Reborn, a procedurally generated model of ancient Rome http://romereborn.frischerconsulting.com/ http://romereborn.frischerconsulting.com/
- jessevdk 11y ago
  To be pedantically correct, CityEngine was a product of Procedural (spin off from ETH) which got acquired by ESRI later.
  - twak 11y ago
    It's always slightly surreal to see your employer on the front page of hn, even more so when you find you find your colleague making the second comment.
    - grkvlt 11y ago
      Without descending into self-congratulatory back-slapping, it's also pretty cool to submit something to HN about an interesting concept you've just discovered and then have people who work and publish in that area respond ;) I'm reading your papers too, now. Thanks for the links.
- twak 11y ago
  The papers written at Esri R&D Zurich this year also include: CGA++ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ Interactive Handles (by me!) http://twak.blogspot.ch/2015/03/interactive-dimensioning-of-parametric.html http://twak.blogspot.ch/2015/03/interactive-dimensioning-of-... Pascal has published, and keeps publishing lots of stuff on procedural modeling (all while directing the Esri research center): https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zzMlobMAAAAJ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zzMlobMAAAAJ
aeontech 11y ago
This is amazingly cool...
jokoon 11y ago
combine this with outerrra http://www.outerra.com/ http://www.outerra.com/ and you have the whole world in a single 3D level...

48 points by grkvlt 11y ago

This research spawned CityEngine from ESRI http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine and there are also a few more awesome papers from the same author, Pascal Muller, ex ETH and now at ESRI. - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS285/PAPERS/Parish_Muller01.pdf http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/CS285/PAPERS/Parish_Mul... - http://www.fdg2013.org/program/workshops/papers/PCG2013/pcg2013_3.pdf http://www.fdg2013.org/program/workshops/papers/PCG2013/pcg2... - http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2014.SG.Lipp.PushPull.pdf http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2014.SG.Lipp.PushPul... - http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/faculty/vision/zeng/pdf/MullerZWG07tog.pdf http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/faculty/vision/zeng/pdf/MullerZWG0... See also Rome Reborn, a procedurally generated model of ancient Rome http://romereborn.frischerconsulting.com/ http://romereborn.frischerconsulting.com/

jessevdk 11y ago
To be pedantically correct, CityEngine was a product of Procedural (spin off from ETH) which got acquired by ESRI later.
- twak 11y ago
  It's always slightly surreal to see your employer on the front page of hn, even more so when you find you find your colleague making the second comment.
  - grkvlt 11y ago
    Without descending into self-congratulatory back-slapping, it's also pretty cool to submit something to HN about an interesting concept you've just discovered and then have people who work and publish in that area respond ;) I'm reading your papers too, now. Thanks for the links.
twak 11y ago
The papers written at Esri R&D Zurich this year also include: CGA++ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ Interactive Handles (by me!) http://twak.blogspot.ch/2015/03/interactive-dimensioning-of-parametric.html http://twak.blogspot.ch/2015/03/interactive-dimensioning-of-... Pascal has published, and keeps publishing lots of stuff on procedural modeling (all while directing the Esri research center): https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zzMlobMAAAAJ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zzMlobMAAAAJ

aeontech 11y ago

This is amazingly cool...

jokoon 11y ago

combine this with outerrra http://www.outerra.com/ http://www.outerra.com/ and you have the whole world in a single 3D level...