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- Incorporating legal rules on procedural house generationPublication . Rodrigues, N.; Dionísio, M.; Gonçalves, A.; Magalhães, L. G.; Moura, J. P.; Chalmers, A.The increasing demand for larger and more complex virtual models arising from different areas (e.g. design of virtual cities, video games and computer animated movies) creates the need for efficient computer algorithms able to generate them automatically. This paper presents a method for automatic generation of traversable houses, using architectural legal rules and an L-system to generate a list of interior rooms. The method is established with a framework specifically conceived to generate 2D floor plans and 3D models which allow the generation of multiple houses and interactive navigation.
- Reconstruction and generation of virtual heritage sitesPublication . Rodrigues, Nuno; Magalhães, L.; Moura, J.; Chalmers, A.Traditionally procedural modelling techniques are commonly used to generate new structures and are presently established in several areas such as video games and computer animated movies. However they may also be used in heritage applications to efficiently produce models of non-existing worlds for which there is some kind of knowledge (e.g. floor plans, photographs) to support the reconstruction of realistic environments. Similarly they may also be used to support the generation of distinct possibilities that allow experts to draw some conclusions or conceive different hypotheses about lost worlds. The present paper shows the benefits and constraints that may arise from the use of such techniques in virtual heritage applications. Furthermore, a whole method is proposed, for the reconstruction and generation of virtual heritage traversable house models, provided through the means of a grammar, demonstrated with the reconstruction and generation of several Roman houses from the heritage site of Conimbriga, Portugal.
- Tone Mapping Operators on Small Screen Devices: An Evaluation StudyPublication . Urbano, C.; Magalhães, L.; Moura, J.; Bessa, M.; Marcos, A.; Chalmers, A.In the last decade, an increasing number of techniques have been developed to reproduce high dynamic range imagery on traditional displays. These techniques, known as Tone Mapping Operators (TMOs), have been compared and ranked in different ways according to several image characteristics. However, none of these algorithms has been developed specifically for small screen devices (SSD). In this paper, we present an evaluation of currently used TMOs to show that SSDs with limited size, resolution and colour depth require specific research to find or create an appropriate solution. The research described in this paper is based on psychophysical experiments; using three different types of displays (CRT, LCD and SSD). The obtained results show that rankings obtained are similar for the LCD and CRT but are significantly different for the SSD. Furthermore, these rankings show additionally that some characteristics of TMOs need to be emphasized to obtain better high-fidelity mapped images for SSDs.