Procedural Modeling

Eric Galin
Institut de la Communication
Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
Phone: (33) 4 72 71 60 74
Fax: (33) 4 72 71 08 52
e-mail: eric.galin@liris.cnrs.fr

Modeling and Generating Realistic Worlds

GENESIS

What occured in 2011

Our paper on the automatic generation of road networks was accepted at Pacific Graphics Conference (see the papers online)

What occured in 2010

Eurographics Cover

We won the first prize of the Computer Graphics Forum 2010 Cover Competition (rank 1 out of 70 subissions), see the image.

Eurographics Conference

Two papers accepted at Eurographics Conference: Heat Transfer Simulation for Modeling Realistic Winter Sceneries and Procedural Generation of Roads

What occured in 2009

Eurographics Conference

One paper was accepted at Eurographics Conference: Heat Transfer Simulation for Modeling Realistic Winter Sceneries and Procedural Generation of Roads

Pacific Graphics Conference

One paper was accepted at Pacific Graphics Conference: Procedural Generation of Rock Piles Using Aperiodic Tiling : this paper improves the original rock generation algorithm presented at Eurographics.

Procedural Modeling and Natural Phenomena (2004-2012)

Salts Decay Aging of Buildings
N. Merillou, S. Merillou, E. Galin, D. Ghazanfarpour
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, ?(7), ?-?, ?.

Authoring Hierarchical Road Networks
E. Galin, A. Peytavie, E. Guerin, B. Benes
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics), 29(7), 2021-2030, 2011.

Simulating Atmospheric Pollution Weathering on Buildings
N. Mérillou, S. Mérillou, D. Ghazanfarpour, J.M. Dischler, E. Galin
Proceedings of WSCG, 65-72, 2010.

Feature based terrain generation using diffusion equation
H. Hnaidi, E. Guérin, E. Galin, A. Peytavie, S. Akkouche
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics, 28(7), 2179-2186, 2010.

Component-Based Model Synthesis for Low Polygonal Models
N. Maréchal, E. Guérin, E. Galin, S. Akkouche
Graphics Interface, 217-224, 2010.

Heat Transfer Simulation for Modeling Realistic Winter Sceneries
N. Maréchal, E. Guérin, E. Galin, S. Mérillou, N. Mérillou
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 29(2), 449-458, 2010.

Procedural Generation of Roads
E. Galin, A. Peytavie, N. Maréchal, E. Guérin
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 29(2), 429-438, 2010.

Procedural Generation of Rock Piles Using Aperiodic Tiling
A. Peytavie, E. Galin, J. Grosjean, S. Mérillou
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics, 28(7), 1801-1809, 2009.

Arches: a Framework for Modeling Complex Terrains
A. Peytavie, E. Galin, J. Grosjean, S. Mérillou
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 28(2), 457-467, 2009.

Generating Vast Varieties of Realistic Leaves with Parametric 2Gmaps L-Systems
A. Peyrat, O. Terraz, S. Mérillou, E. Galin
The Visual Computer (Proceedings of Computer Graphics International) , 24(7-9), 807-816, 2008.

Modeling Autumn Sceneries
B. Desbenoit, E. Galin, S. Akkouche and J. Grosjean
Eurographics, Short Paper, 2006.

Modeling Cracks and Fractures
B. Desbenoit, E. Galin, S. Akkouche
The Visual Computer (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics), 21(8-10), 717-726, 2005.

Interactive Modeling of Mushrooms
B. Desbenoit, D. Vanderhaghe, E. Galin and J. Grosjean
Eurographics, Short Paper, 37-40, 2004.

Simulating and Modeling Lichen Growth
B. Desbenoit, E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Proceedings), 23(3), 341-350, 2004.

Implicit Surfaces (1996-2008)

Towards an efficient triangle-based spherical harmonics representation of 3D objects.
R. Allègre, E. Galin, R. Chaine, S. Akkouche
Computer Aided Geometric Design, 25(8), 561-575, 2008.

Efficient Spherical Harmonics Representation of 3D Objects.
M. Mousa, R. Chaine, S. Akkouche, E. Galin
The Visual Computer (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics), 23(8-10), 248-257, 2007.

The HybridTree : Mixing Skeletal Implicit Surfaces, Triangle Meshes and Point Sets in a Free-Form Modeling System.
R. Allègre, E. Galin, R. Chaine, S. Akkouche
Graphical Models, 68(1), 1-64, 2006.

A Fast Particle System Framework for Interactive Implicit Modeling.
E. Galin, R. Allègre and S. Akkouche
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 215-221, 2006.

Interactive Implicit Modeling With Hierarchical Spatial Caching.
R. Schmitt, B. Wyvill and E. Galin
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 2005.

Fast Processing of Triangle Meshes using Triangle Fans.
E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 2005.

A Framework for Modeling, Animating and Morphing Textured Implicit Models.
A. Barbier, E. Galin, S. Akkouche.
Graphical Models, 67 (3), 166-188, 2004.

Implicit Surface Reconstruction from Contours.
S. Akkouche and E. Galin.
The Visual Computer, 20(6), 380-391, 2004.

Procedural modeling of cracks and fractures.
A. Martinet, E. Galin, B. Desbenoit and S. Akkouche.
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 346-349, 2004.

Fast distance computation between a point and cylinders, cones, line swept spheres and cone-spheres.
A. Barbier, E. Galin.
Journal of Graphic Tools, 9(2), 31-39, 2004.

A Hybrid Shape Representation for Free-form Modeling.
R. AllÃ¨gre, A. Barbier, E. Galin, and S. Akkouche.
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 7-18, 2004.

Complex Skeletal Implicit Surfaces with Levels of Detail
A. Barbier, E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Proceedings of WSCG, 12(1), 35-42, 2004.

Controlled Metamorphosis of Animated Objects
A. Barbier, E. Galin, S. Akkouche
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 2003.

Normal Control using N-adic Subdivision Schemes
G. Salomon, A. Leclerq, S. Akkouche and E. Galin
Proceedings of Shape Modeling International, 2002.

Adaptive Implicit Surface Polygonization using Marching Triangles
S. Akkouche and E. Galin
Computer Graphic Forum, 20(2): 67-80, 2001.

Mixing Triangle Meshes and Implicit Surfaces in Character Animation
A. Leclercq, S. Akkouche and E. Galin
Eurographics Workshop on Computer Animation and Simulation, 37-47, 2001.

Morphing the BlobTree
E. Galin, A. Leclercq and S. Akkouche,
Computer Graphic Forum, 19(4): 257-270, 2000.

Incremental Polygonization of Implicit Surfaces
E. Galin and S. Akkouche,
Graphical Models, 62, 19-39, 2000.

Extending the CSG Tree (Warping, Blending and Boolean Operations in an Implicit Surface Modeling System)
B. Wyvill, A. Guy and E. Galin
Computer Graphics Forum, 18 (2), 149-158, 1999.

Blob-Tree Metamorphosis
E. Galin, A. Leclercq and S. Akkouche
Implicit Surfaces'99 Conference, 4: 9-16, 1999.

Extending the CSG Tree (Warping, Blending and Boolean Operations in an Implicit Surface Modeling System)
B. Wyvill, A. Guy and E. Galin
Implicit Surfaces'98 Conference, 3 , 113-121, 1998.

Fast Surface Reconstruction from Contours using Implicit Surfaces
E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Implicit Surfaces'98 Conference, 3: 139-144, 1998.

Incremental Techniques for Implicit surface Modeling
E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Computer Graphics International'98, 312-321, 1998.

Shape Constrained Blob Metamorphosis
E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Implicit Surfaces'96 Conference, 2: 9-23, 1996.

Blob Metamorphosis based on Minkowski Sums
E. Galin and S. Akkouche
Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Proceedings), 15(3), 143-152, 1996.