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EcoBrush: Interactive Control of Visually Consistent Large-Scale Ecosystems

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One challenge in portraying large-scale natural scenes in virtual environments is specifying the attributes of plants, such as species, size and placement, in a way that respects the features of natural ecosystems, while remaining computationally tractable and allowing user design. To address this, we combine ecosystem simulation with a distribution analysis of the resulting plant attributes to create biome-specific databases, indexed by terrain conditions, such as temperature, rainfall, sunlight and slope. For a specific terrain, interpolated entries are drawn from this database and used to interactively synthesize a full ecosystem, while retaining the fidelity of the original simulations. A painting interface supplies users with semantic brushes for locally adjusting ecosystem age, plant density and variability, as well as optionally picking from a palette of precomputed distributions. Since these brushes are keyed to the underlying terrain properties a balance between user control and real-world consistency is maintained. Our system can be be used to interactively design ecosystems up to 5 × 5 km 2 in extent, or to automatically generate even larger ecosystems in a fraction of the time of a full simulation, while demonstrating known properties from plant ecology such as succession, self-thinning, and underbrush, across a variety of biomes.
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hal-01519852 , version 1 (09-05-2017)

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James Gain, Harry Long, Guillaume Cordonnier, Marie-Paule Cani. EcoBrush: Interactive Control of Visually Consistent Large-Scale Ecosystems. Computer Graphics Forum, 2017, 36 (2), pp.63-73. ⟨10.1111/cgf.13107⟩. ⟨hal-01519852⟩
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