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Geek Culture / Texturing & Modelling - a Procedural Approach

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Philip
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 14:27
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By David Ebert, F. Kenton Musgrave, et al.


I'd like to recommend this book. It is a thoroughly excellent and interesting book if you are looking into procedural texturing. Mathematically its very complex and certainly not for a beginner programmer.

The sections from Musgrave on procedural planet creation are fascinating - absolutely top drawer.

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Fallout
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 14:30
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Can ya give us a brief outline of what you mean by procedural texturing please philster?

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Philip
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 14:51
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Code segments or algorithms that specify characteristics of a computer generated model or effect, i.e. instead of loading up a *.png file "marble texture" and applying it to a model, instead by code you create a marble texture. There are two advantages to procedural techniques - abstraction and parametric control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_textures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

http://www.pandromeda.com/

The power of procedural techniques is easy to underestimate. Take a look at the Mojoworld programme made by Pandromeda (link above). That allows you to create procedurally whole planets. Bloody amazing.

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 15:40
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Very cool stuff Philip! I will definately be looking into this further.

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Fallout
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 15:43
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Ahh, I gotcha. There was that 64k FPS game once, wasnt there? All the textures in that were procedurally generated I believe, so there was no media - just code, which allowed the game to be heavily compressed. I can definitely see the use of it, especially for infinite texture variation/blending etc. but is it feasible to apply it in real time?

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MikeS
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Posted: 30th Apr 2006 23:18
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Anyone interested in procedurally generated alogrithms should look into Perlin noise, one of the most clever pieces of code out there for procedural textures.



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