Thumbnail Galleries for Procedural Models

dc.contributor.authorLienhard, Stefanen_US
dc.contributor.authorSpecht, Matthiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorNeubert, Borisen_US
dc.contributor.authorPauly, Marken_US
dc.contributor.authorMüller, Pascalen_US
dc.contributor.editorB. Levy and J. Kautzen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-03T12:29:29Z
dc.date.available2015-03-03T12:29:29Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractProcedural modeling allows for the generation of innumerable variations of models from a parameterized, conditional or stochastic rule set. Due to the abstractness, complexity and stochastic nature of rule sets, it is often very difficult to have an understanding of the diversity of models that a given rule set defines. We address this problem by presenting a novel system to automatically generate, cluster, rank, and select a series of representative thumbnail images out of a rule set. We introduce a set of view attributes that can be used to measure the suitability of an image to represent a model, and allow for comparison of different models derived from the same rule set. To find the best thumbnails, we exploit these view attributes on images of models obtained by stochastically sampling the parameter space of the rule set. The resulting thumbnail gallery gives a representative visual impression of the procedural modeling potential of the rule set. Performance is discussed by means of a number of distinct examples and compared to state-of-the-art approaches.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12317en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleThumbnail Galleries for Procedural Modelsen_US
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