Procedural Modelling of Buildings [pdf]

[grkvlt]

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga/cs535-12/lectures/grammars/proc-mod-bldgs.pdf

[grkvlt]

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/

[twak → grkvlt]

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

[jessevdk → grkvlt]

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

[twak → jessevdk]

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.

[grkvlt → twak]

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.

[jokoon]

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

[aeontech]

This is amazingly cool...