Thumbnail galleries for procedural models

نویسندگان

  • Stefan Lienhard
  • M. Specht
  • Boris Neubert
  • Mark Pauly
  • Pascal Müller
چکیده

Procedural modeling allows for the generation of innumerable variations of models from a parameterized, conditional or stochastic rule set. Due to the abstractness, complexity and stochastic nature of rule sets, it is often very difficult to have an understanding of the diversity of models that a given rule set defines. We address this problem by presenting a novel system to automatically generate, cluster, rank, and select a series of representative thumbnail images out of a rule set. We introduce a set of ‘view attributes’ that can be used to measure the suitability of an image to represent a model, and allow for comparison of different models derived from the same rule set. To find the best thumbnails, we exploit these view attributes on images of models obtained by stochastically sampling the parameter space of the rule set. The resulting thumbnail gallery gives a representative visual impression of the procedural modeling potential of the rule set. Performance is discussed by means of a number of distinct examples and compared to state-of-the-art approaches.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Comput. Graph. Forum

دوره 33  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014