• DocumentCode
    3313557
  • Title

    Photorealistic terrain generation method based on fractal geometry theory and procedural texture

  • Author

    Meng, Dan ; Cai, Xingquan ; Su, Zhitong ; Li, Jinhong

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Inf. Eng., North China Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-11 Aug. 2009
  • Firstpage
    341
  • Lastpage
    344
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we provide an efficient method to generate the terrain used in games and simulation systems. We propose the midpoint displacement method to generate the height map of terrain, and give the procedural texture method based height value to create the texture map of terrain. This method can generate different style terrain by changing the roughness and sampling percent. The terrain being created by this method can be used in simulation system and games, so a lot of scientific research fee to buy DEM data can be saved. Firstly, this paper shows the midpoint displacement method. Then this paper provides the procedural texture method based height value. At last, this paper gives the implements. The implements prove that our method is feasible and valid. And our method has also been used in the practical projects.
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; digital elevation models; fractals; geographic information systems; image texture; terrain mapping; GIS; data elevation model; fractal geometry theory; midpoint displacement method; photorealistic terrain generation method; procedural texture; terrain height map; Aerospace simulation; Educational institutions; Equations; Fractals; Game theory; Geographic Information Systems; Information geometry; Sampling methods; Solid modeling; Virtual reality; fractal geometry; midpoint displacement; procedural texture; terrain generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. ICCSIT 2009. 2nd IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4519-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4520-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234644
  • Filename
    5234644