Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2014, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 469-472.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2014.05.006

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Progress in Procedural City Modeling

ZHU Xiao-qiang1,2, WAN Wang-gen1,2   

  1. 1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
    2. Institute of Smart City, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2013-12-12 Revised:2014-01-15 Online:2014-09-23 Published:2014-01-15

Abstract: The city procedural modeling techniques are investigated, which makes use of the similarities of buildings, streets and so on, in which the generation rules are defined and applied to the pre-set basic model elements. Super-large scenes can be automatically created with high efficiency, but the differences between the produced models and the real ones usually exist. So such models can be used in movies, video games and urban designs. Finally, inverse procedural modeling and its significant application in city modeling are presented.

Key words: city modeling, procedural modeling, digital city

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