Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

Challenges in Procedural
Modeling of Buildings
Gustavo Patow and Gonzalo Besuievsky

ViRVIG - UdG

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Buildings

Objective!

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

Objective!

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Buildings

The origins

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

The origins

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

The origins

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Buildings

A real city has

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Buildings

Our focus

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Buildings

is on procedural building modeling!

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

The origins
[PM01]

[WWSR03]

[MWH06]

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Buildings

Modeling is based on sets of rules

InitialShape
Comp
Subdiv_Facade
Insert_door

Repeat_Floors
Repeat_Windows
Insert_Window

DAG

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Buildings

Challenges!
in Procedural Modeling of Buildings!

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

1- Big Cities

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Buildings

Big Cities: On-the-fly

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Buildings

Big Cities: On-the-fly

HAEGLER S., WONKA P., MULLER S., VAN GOOL L., MULLER P.:
Grammar-based encoding of facades. Computer Graphics Forum
29 (2010), 14791487
ALI S., YE J., RAZDAN A., WONKA P.: Compressed facade
displacement maps. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics 15, 2 (2009), 262273
MARVIE J.-E., GAUTRON P., HIRTZLIN P., SOURI- MANT G.: Rendertime procedural per-pixel geometry generation. In Proceedings of
Graphics Interface 2011
KRECKLAU L., KOBBELT L.: Interactive modeling by procedural
high-level primitives. Computers & Graphics, 0 (2012), .

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Buildings

Big Cities: Client-Server

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Buildings

Big Cities: Client-Server

CULLEN B., OSULLIVAN C.: A caching
approach to real-time procedural
generation of cities from gis data.
Journal of WSCG 19, 3 (2011), 119126

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Buildings

Big Cities: Cloud-Computing

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Buildings

Big Cities: LoD

"Customizable LoD
for Procedural
Architecture",
Gonzalo Besuievsky
and Gustavo Patow,
Computer Graphics
Forum, accepted for
publication, 2013

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Buildings

2- Interactivity & UI

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Buildings

Interactivity & UI
LIPP M., WONKA P.,
WIMMER M.: Interactive
visual editing of
grammars for procedural
architecture. ACM
Transactions on Graphics
27, 3 (Aug. 2008), 102:1
10

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Buildings

Interactivity & UI
PATOW G.: User-friendly graph editing for procedural
modeling of buildings. IEEE Computer Graphics and
Applications 32 (2012), 6675.

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Buildings

Interactivity & UI
KELLY T., WONKA P.: Interactive architectural modeling
with procedural extrusions. ACM Trans. Graph. 30, 2
(Apr. 2011), 14:114:15

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Buildings

Interactivity & UI
"Visual Copy & Paste for
Procedurally Modeled
Buildings by Ruleset
Rewriting", Santiago
Barroso, Gonzalo
Besuievsky, Gustavo
Patow, Computers &
Graphics, 37 (2013), pp.
238-246, 2013.

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Buildings

3- Irregular Architecture

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Buildings

Irregular facades
LIN J., COHEN-OR D., ZHANG H., LIANG C., SHARF A.,
DEUSSEN O., CHEN B.: Structure-preserving
retargeting of irregular 3d architecture. ACM Trans.
Graph. 30, 6 (Dec. 2011), 183:1183:10.

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Buildings

Irregular Facades
BAO F., SCHWARZ M., WONKA P.: Procedural facade
variations from a single layout. ACM Trans. Graph. 32, 1
(Feb. 2013), 8:18:13.

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Buildings

4- Time-Dependence
Pittsburg

Greenville

Canterbury

Victoria
Buildings,

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Buildings

Time-Dependence
WHITING E., OCHSENDORF J., DURAND F.: Procedural
modeling of structurally-sound masonry buildings. ACM
Trans. Graph. 28 (December 2009), 112:1112:9

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Buildings

Time-Dependence
HAVEMANN S.: Generative Mesh Modeling. PhD thesis,
Braunschweig Technical University, Germany, 2005.

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Buildings

Time-Dependence

BARROSO S., PATOW G.: Visual Language

Generalization for Procedural Modeling of
Buildings. In XXII Spanish Computer
Graphics Conference (2012), pp. 5766.

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Buildings

Time-Dependence
CUTLER B., DORSEY J., MCMILLAN L., MULLER M.,
JAGNOW R.: A procedural approach to authoring solid
models. ACM Trans. Graph. 21, 3 (July 2002), 302311.
BARBARA CUTLER: Procedural
Authoring of Solid Models, PhD
Dissertation, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer
Science, August 2003.

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5- Real-world Architecture
PRZEMYSLAW MUSIALSKI AND MICHAEL WIMMER:
Inverse-Procedural Methods for Urban Models, UDMV,
Girona, May 2013

In a few minutes!

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Buildings

6- Automatic Ruleset Generation

MERRELL P., SCHKUFZA E., KOLTUN V.: Computergenerated residential building layouts. ACM Trans.
Graph. 29, 6 (Dec. 2010), 181:1181:12

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Buildings

Automatic Ruleset Generation

TALTON J. O., LOU Y., LESSER S., DUKE J., MECH R.,
KOLTUN V.: Metropolis procedural modeling. ACM Trans.
Graph. 30, 2 (Apr. 2011), 11:111:14.

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Buildings

Automatic Ruleset Generation

PATOW G.: User-friendly graph
editing for procedural modeling of
buildings. IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applica- tions 32 (2012), 66
75.

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Buildings

Conclusions

Challenges in Procedural Modeling of

Buildings

Conclusions

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Buildings

Challenges in Procedural
Modeling of Buildings

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