Texture-lobes for tree modelling

Yotam Livny; Soeren Pirk; Zhanglin Cheng; Feilong Yan; Oliver Deussen; Daniel Cohen-Or; Baoquan Chen

doi:10.1145/1964921.1964948

Texture-lobes for tree modelling

Yotam Livny, Soeren Pirk, Zhanglin Cheng, Feilong Yan, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen

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Abstract

We present a lobe-based tree representation for modeling trees. The new representation is based on the observation that the tree's foliage details can be abstracted into canonical geometry structures, termed lobe-textures. We introduce techniques to (i) approximate the geometry of given tree data and encode it into a lobe-based representation, (ii) decode the representation and synthesize a fully detailed tree model that visually resembles the input. The encoded tree serves as a light intermediate representation, which facilitates efficient storage and transmission of massive amounts of trees, e.g., from a server to clients for interactive applications in urban environments. The method is evaluated by both reconstructing laser scanned trees (given as point sets) as well as re-representing existing tree models (given as polygons).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2011, SIGGRAPH 2011
Volume	30
Edition	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1964921.1964948
State	Published - 1 Jul 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM SIGGRAPH 2011, SIGGRAPH 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 7 Aug 2011 → 11 Aug 2011

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Conference	ACM SIGGRAPH 2011, SIGGRAPH 2011
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	7/08/11 → 11/08/11

Keywords

Natural phenomena
Plants synthesis and reconstruction
Point-based modeling
Rule-based tree modeling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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