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Composite Textures: emulating building materials and vegetation for 3D models
A. Zalesny, D. Auf der Maur L. Van Gool
VAST2001, Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage
2001
Abstract
In building 3D site models for visualization and virtual walkthrough,
most emphasis so far has been on creating the 3D shape models. Less
emphasis has been on creating realistic textures, e.g. to simulate
building materials or vegetation. Nevertheless, the appearance of object
and landscape models will depend at least as much on their textures, as
on the precision of their geometry. The paper proposes a texture
synthesis technique for the simulation of building materials and
vegetation types. As textures can often more easily be described as a
composition of subtextures than as a single texture, a hierarchical
extension of our basic texture synthesis is proposed. These composite
textures are based on a kind of metatexture concept, i.e. the layout of
the different subtextures is itself modeled as a texture, that can be
generated automatically. Examples are shown for building materials with
an intricate structure and for the automatic creation of landscape textures.
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@InProceedings{eth_biwi_00218,
author = {A. Zalesny and D. Auf der Maur L. Van Gool},
title = {Composite Textures: emulating building materials and vegetation for 3D models},
booktitle = {VAST2001, Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage},
year = {2001},
pages = {179-186},
editor = {Stephen Spencer},
publisher = {ACM SIGGRAPH},
keywords = {texture synthesis, texture analysis, statistical texture modeling}
}