Authoring Terrains with Spatialised Style
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2023
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Various terrain modelling methods have been proposed for the past decades, providing efficient and often interactive authoring tools. However, they seldom include any notion of style, which is critical for designers in the entertainment industry. We introduce a new generative network method that bridges the gap between automatic terrain synthesis and authoring, providing a versatile set of authoring tools allowing spatialised style. We build upon the StyleGAN2 architecture and extend it with authoring tools. Given an input sketch or existing elevation map, our method generates a terrain with features that can be authored, enhanced, and augmented using interactive brushes and style manipulation tools. The strength of our approach lies in the versatility and interoperability of the different tools. We validate our method quantitatively with drainage calculation against other previous techniques and qualitatively by asking users to follow a prompt or freely create a terrain.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies -> Shape inference; Shape modeling
@article{10.1111:cgf.14936,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Authoring Terrains with Spatialised Style}},
author = {Perche, Simon and Peytavie, Adrien and Benes, Bedrich and Galin, Eric and Guérin, Eric},
year = {2023},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.14936}
}