Bedřich Beneš: Virtual Landscaping, Purdue University, USA

http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cgt/Facstaff/bbenes/private/benes.htm

Terrains and landscapes have played an important role in Computer Graphics for nearly thirty years. However, their modeling still presents an open problem. Real world terrains are influenced by various effects from which the water erosion is probably the most important one. Landscapes are formed by the road system that defines shapes of cities and urban areas, by plan ecosystems that influence the landscape at all scales, by water bodies, etc.
In this presentation we will show an overview of terrain and landscape modeling techniques. We will show approaches to populate terrains with urban areas, interactive ecosystem modeling, hydraulic erosion, plant interaction with environments and how these all multi-layered modeling techniques of various phenomena could yield to a unified terrain modeling system. The presentation will focus both interactive and off-line modeling as well as modeling on different scales.

Presenter’s References:

• Carlos A. Vanegas, Daniel G. Aliaga, Bedrich Benes, Paul Waddell, Interactive Designing and Editing of Urban Spaces using Geometric and Behavioral Modeling, ACM Trans. Graph. (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia 2009) (to appear)
• Beneš Bedřich, Nathan Andrysco, and Ondrej Stava, Interactive Modeling of Virtual Ecosystems, in Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena 2009, (to appear)
• Ondrej Stava, Beneš Bedřich, and Jaroslav Krivanek, Interactive Hydraulic Erosion on the GPU in ShaderX7 (to appear)
• Peter Kristof, Bedřich Beneš, Jaroslav Krivanek, and Ondrej Stava, Hydraulic Erosion Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2009) vol. 28 No.2, 2009 (to appear)
• Carlos A. Vanegas, Daniel G. Aliaga, Bedřich Beneš, Paul Waddell, Visualization of Simulated Urban Spaces: Inferring Parameterized Generation of Streets, Parcels, and Aerial Imagery, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp.1-10 , 2009.
• Daniel G. Aliaga, Carlos A. Vanegas, and Bedřich Beneš, Interactive example-based urban layout synthesis. ACM Trans. Graph. 27, 5 Proceedings of Siggraph Asia (Dec. 2008), 1-10. 2008
• Ondrej Stava, Bedřich Beneš, Matthew Brisbinn, and Jaroslav Krivanek, Interactive Terrain Modeling Using Hydraulic Erosion, in Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, pp.201-210, 2008
• Daniel G. Aliaga, Bedřich Beneš, Carlos Vanegas, and Nathan Andrysco. Interactive Reconfiguration of Urban Layouts, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, May/June 2008 Vol 28, No. 3 pp. 38-47
• Christopher Hartman and Bedřich Beneš, Autonomous boids. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 17, 3-4 (Jul. 2006), pp: 199-206.