Procedural Modelling of Buildings [pdf]

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48 points·grkvlt··7 comments

This research spawned CityEngine from ESRI 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_Mul...

- http://www.fdg2013.org/program/workshops/papers/PCG2013/pcg2...

- http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2014.SG.Lipp.PushPul...

- 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/

To be pedantically correct, CityEngine was a product of Procedural (spin off from ETH) which got acquired by ESRI later.

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.

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.

The papers written at Esri R&D Zurich this year also include: CGA++ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ Interactive Handles (by me!) 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

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

This is amazingly cool...

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