Generating Large-scale Details: Altering Soil Surface and Structure with Tracks

Peyrat, Alexandre; Terraz, Olivier; Merillou, Stephane; Galin, Eric; Ghazanfarpour, Djamchid

Generating Large-scale Details: Altering Soil Surface and Structure with Tracks

Files

129-137.pdf (865.89 KB)

Date

2011

Authors

Peyrat, Alexandre
Terraz, Olivier
Merillou, Stephane
Galin, Eric
Ghazanfarpour, Djamchid

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Tracks, footsteps and ruts are common elements we can observe in natural sceneries. Wherever there is human activity, we can find marks on the ground left by vehicles or walkers. These marks can be directly dug from a soft ground or left on a hard ground by objects that carry materials on their surfaces. This paper presents a method to alter soil with such tracks. These tracks are defined with a trajectory and the shape of the mark left by the moving object (vehicle or walker) and is then applied to the soil for each step of the trajectory. Using our method we can obtain tracks on a loose soil and the deposit of material through the track on the desired length. This method allows us to produce a great number of large-scale details on terrains.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/PE/vriphys/vriphys11/129-137
,
booktitle = {Workshop in Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation "VRIPHYS" (2011)
},
editor = {Jan Bender and Kenny Erleben and Eric Galin
},
title = {{Generating Large-scale Details: Altering Soil Surface and Structure with Tracks
}},
author = {Peyrat, Alexandre and 
Terraz, Olivier and 
Merillou, Stephane and 
Galin, Eric and 
Ghazanfarpour, Djamchid
},
year = {2011
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-87-6
},
DOI = {/10.2312/PE/vriphys/vriphys11/129-137
}
}