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In this study we introduce a new technique for the generation of terrain maps, exploiting a combination of procedural generation and Neural Style Transfer. We consider our approach to be a viable alternative to competing generative models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Fabio Merizzi

Procedural terrain generation for video games has been traditionally been done with smartly designed but handcrafted algorithms that generate heightmaps. We propose a first step toward the learning and synthesis of these using recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Christopher Beckham , Christopher Pal

Terrains are the main part of an electronic game. To reduce human effort on game development, procedural techniques are used to generate synthetic terrains. However rendering a terrain is not a trivial task. Their rendering techniques must…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Ricardo B. D. d'Oliveira , Antonio L. Apolinário

In computer games, traditional procedural terrain generation relies on a grid of vertices, with each point representing terrain elevation. For each square in the grid, two triangles are created by connecting fixed vertex indices, resulting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Richard Tivolt

A new method is presented, allowing for the generation of 3D terrain and texture from coherent noise. The method is significantly faster than prevailing fractal brownian motion approaches, while producing results of equivalent quality. The…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Yann Thorimbert , Bastien Chopard

Simulation-driven development of intelligent machines benefits from artificial terrains with controllable, well-defined characteristics. However, most existing tools for terrain generation focus on artist-driven workflows and visual…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Erik Wallin

Sketch-based terrain generation seeks to create realistic landscapes for virtual environments in various applications such as computer games, animation and virtual reality. Recently, deep learning based terrain generation has emerged,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zexin Hu , Kun Hu , Clinton Mo , Lei Pan , Zhiyong Wang

Procedural 3D Terrain generation has become a necessity in open world games, as it can provide unlimited content, through a functionally infinite number of different areas, for players to explore. In our approach, we use Generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Emmanouil Panagiotou , Eleni Charou

Terrains are visually important and commonly used in computer graphics. While many algorithms for their generation exist, it is difficult to assess the realism of a generated terrain. This paper presents a first step in the direction of…

Automated generation and (user) authoring of the realistic virtual terrain is most sought for by the multimedia applications like VR models and gaming. The most common representation adopted for terrain is Digital Elevation Model (DEM).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Shanthika Naik , Aryamaan Jain , Avinash Sharma , KS Rajan

Fluvial erosion is a natural process that can generate significant impacts on soil stability and strategic infrastructures. The detection and monitoring of this phenomenon is traditionally addressed by photogrammetric methods and analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Paúl Maji , Marlon Túquerres , Stalin Valencia , Marcela Valenzuela , Christian Mejia-Escobar

The identification and modeling of the terrain from point cloud data is an important component of Terrestrial Remote Sensing (TRS) applications. The main focus in terrain modeling is capturing details of complex geological features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Lee Easson , Alireza Tavakkoli , Jonathan Greenberg

Curriculum learning allows complex tasks to be mastered via incremental progression over `stepping stone' goals towards a final desired behaviour. Typical implementations learn locomotion policies for challenging environments through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-30 David Howard , Josh Kannemeyer , Davide Dolcetti , Humphrey Munn , Nicole Robinson

Procedural terrain generation plays a vital role in creating virtual landscapes for games, simulations, and various applications. The WaveFunctionCollapse (WFC) algorithm has proven effective in generating content by learning patterns from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Seyedparsa Dajkhosh

3D terrain models are essential in fields such as video game development and film production. Since surface color often correlates with terrain geometry, capturing this relationship is crucial to achieving realism. However, most existing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Kazuki Higo , Toshiki Kanai , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

In this work, we present a novel method for extensive multi-scale generative terrain modeling. At the core of our model is a cascade of superresolution diffusion models that can be combined to produce consistent images across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ansh Sharma , Albert Xiao , Praneet Rathi , Rohit Kundu , Albert Zhai , Yuan Shen , Shenlong Wang

Maps are a very important component of strategy games, and a time-consuming task if done by hand. Maps generated by traditional PCG techniques such as Perlin noise or tile-based PCG techniques look unnatural and unappealing, thus not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Vasco Nunes , João Dias , Pedro A. Santos

Autonomous off-road navigation requires robots to estimate terrain traversability from onboard sensors and plan motion accordingly. Conventional approaches typically rely on sampling-based planners such as MPPI to generate short-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yixuan Jia , Qingyuan Li , Jonathan P. How

Real-time generation of natural-looking floor plans is vital in games with dynamic environments. This paper presents an algorithm to generate suburban house floor plans in real-time. The algorithm is based on the work presented in [1].…

Graphics · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Maysam Mirahmadi , Abdallah Shami

We propose a new procedural content generation method which learns iterative level generators from a dataset of existing levels. The Path of Destruction method, as we call it, views level generation as repair; levels are created by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Matthew Siper , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius
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