Création interactive de mondes virtuels : combiner génération procédurale et contrôle utilisateur intuitif
The complexity required for virtual worlds is always increasing. Conventional modeling tech- niques are struggling to meet the constraints and efficiency required for the production of such scenes. Procedural generation techniques use algorithms for the automated creation of virtual worlds, but are often non-intuitive and therefore reserved to experienced programmers. Indeed, these methods offer fewer controls to users and are rarely interactive. Moreover, the user often needs to find values for several parameters. The user only gets indirect control through a series of trials and errors, which makes modeling tasks long and tedious.  The objective of this thesis is to combine the power of procedural modeling techniques with intuitive user control towards interactive methods for designing virtual worlds. First, we present a technique for procedural modeling of villages over arbitrary terrains, where elements are subjected to strong environmental constraints. Second, we propose an interactive technique for the procedural modeling of waterfall sceneries, combining intuitive user control with the automated generation of consistent content, in regard of hydrology and terrain constraints. Then, we describe an interactive sketch-based technique for editing terrains, where terrain features are extracted and deformed to fit the user sketches. Finally, we present a painting metaphor for virtual world creation and editing, where methods for example-based synthesis of vectorial elements are used to automate deformation and editing of the scene while maintaining its consistency.
Procedural Edition interactive Interactive editing Intuitive Virtual Worlds