PROCEDURAL MODELING OF EXTERIOR BY USE OF HOUDINI

Abstract

Procedural modeling deals with (semi)au­tomatic content generation by means of a program or procedure. Among other advantages, its data compres­sion and the potential to generate a large variety of detailed content with reduced human intervention, have made procedural modeling attractive for creating virtual environments increasingly used in movies, games, and simulations. Procedural methods present one of the most powerful techniques for authoring a vast variety of computer graphics models. However, their massive applicability is hindered by the lack of control and a low predictability of the results. In the classical procedural modeling pipeline, the user usually defines a set of rules, executes the procedural system, and by examining the results attempts to infer what should be changed in the system definition in order to achieve the desired output.