User Interface for Creating Traditional Chinese Architecture

We present an interface for users to conveniently and quickly create a settlement with various standard structures in traditional Chinese architecture. The main page of the interface is a top-down map view of the canvas which allows users to place different structures, such as pavilions, pagodas, halls, houses, gates, moon-gates and bridges onto the scene. Then, the user can custom-design each structure. Because traditional Chinese architecture has a standard form, we simplify the design of a building into a few parameters which users can edit, such as roof curvature and roof height. This allows the user to design the building according to their preference and still adhere to the traditional Chinese architecture form.