Integrating semantics and procedural generation: key enabling factors

نویسندگان

  • R. Bidarra
  • K. J. de Kraker
  • R. M. Smelik
  • T. Tutenel
چکیده

Manual content creation for virtual worlds can no longer satisfy the increasing demand arising from areas as entertainment and serious games, simulations, movies, etc. Furthermore, currently deployed modeling tools basically do not scale up: while they become more and more specialized and complex, they strikingly fail to assist designers in concentrating on their creative tasks. This paper presents the main concepts of what we designate declarative modeling of virtual worlds, a novel modeling approach that allows designers of virtual worlds to concentrate on stating what they want to create instead of on describing how they should model it. We discuss the two main characteristics of this approach – semantics and procedural generation – and describe how they mutually reinforce, support and amplify designers' efforts, thus empowering their creative skills. We conclude that this declarative approach provides designers with the productivity gain of procedural generation techniques, while still allowing for abundant control and flexibility. In addition, it significantly reduces the complexity of virtual world modeling, making it accessible to whole new groups of users and applications.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Declarative Semantics in Object-Oriented Software Development - A Taxonomy and Survey

One of the modern paradigms to develop an application is object oriented analysis and design. In this paradigm, there are several objects and each object plays some specific roles in applications. In an application, we must distinguish between procedural semantics and declarative semantics for their implementation in a specific programming language. For the procedural semantics, we can write a ...

متن کامل

Work Plan and Methodology

The proposed method is based on 2-dimensional quantization of distance vectors between biometrics features and pairs of random vectors in this method the concept of changeable cryptographic key generation using face biometrics signal. A previously introduced scheme, fuzzy vault, is utilized for secure binding of randomly generated key with extracted biometrics features. The major technical diff...

متن کامل

Direct Artist Control for Procedural Content Generation of Urban Environments

Creating 3D digital assets of urban environments is a challenging task, requiring a significant amount of manual labor. To automate parts of this process, many procedural modeling methods to automatically create buildings, plants or entire cities were introduced. The main advantage of such methods compared to manual methods is the ability to create large amounts of assets using just a few param...

متن کامل

Integrating Action Calculi and AgentSpeak: Closing the Gap

Existing action calculi provide rich, declarative formalisms for reasoning about actions. BDI-based programming languages like AgentSpeak, on the other hand, are procedural and geared towards practical applications of cognitive agents. In this paper, we close the gap between these two lines of research by integrating action calculi and AgentSpeak programs. Specifically, we develop a new and pur...

متن کامل

Structures, Semantics and Statistics

At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue that computing statistics over a large number of structures offers a powerful methodology for producing semantic mappings, the expressions that specify such reconciliation. In essence, the statistics offer hints about the...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010