Procedural Vessel Hull Generation

Procedural Vessel Hull Generation

Mol, A.W.

Bidarra, R. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Intelligent Systems

Computer Graphics and Visualisation

2015-02-10

Simulations in 3-D virtual worlds are more and more applied to several domains, as it creates numerous potential opportunities and it reduces resources, costs and risks. Due to this growing phenomenon, 3-D content generation is an uprising topic. Procedural Modelling techniques are proven to be useful for this purpose. This paper contributes to a novel, compact solution that describes the complexprogression of vessel hulls by means of a parametric model. Furthermore, this solution includes controllability and serves the plausibility requirement. Our model achieves a significant level of diversity and scalability. This method consists of an off-line training and on-line generation approach and is therefore applicable for on-the-fly vessel hull generation. Based on an elaborated validation research, we found that our method is capable of generating plausible vessel hull instances with reasonable detail within 5 milliseconds a piece. We also developed an mixed-initiative interface to manipulate vessel hulls by hand. Moreover, we extended our research on hull generation to complete vessel generation.

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cc5a729c-aa94-4b85-a4eb-16e0e781f24e

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2015 Mol, A.W.