City generator

[remus]

city test1.jpg

city test2.jpg

A little project.

What it does at the moment:
-Takes a set of building lots and turns them in to 'buildings'

Stuff i plan for it to do:
-Divide up blocks (so you could put in a road plan and it'll spit buildings out the other end)
-Better roofs
-pavements

Anyone else got any good suggestions? (Bear in mind it'll likely be making a lot of geometry, though, so nothing too poly heavy.)

[Boofredlay]

Are you writing a Ruby script to do this or is it just a project of yours?

[Pilou]

[thomthom]

Ah! I was planning to make a post about something like this. I've been talking to Chris about a community City Generator Project. Was going to polish off my concept a little and make some more illustrations to exaplain. But I might as well just show my ideas now.

Since a city generator can become pretty complex, I thought it could be made into modules which would snap together. A plugin with plugin sort of speak.

I'm currently working on a street generating plugin, that takes centre lines and generates road surfaces.

CityBuilder01.png

CityBuilder02.png

I was thinking that the areas in between the roads, could be used by another module to generate buildings. Like in Remus' OP.


I was also planning on making a script that generated street lines, which then could be made into road surfaces. My idea was that you drew large faces, defined a street style to each face. Modern streets (larger streets in stronger geographic patterns), older streest (smaller in a more organic random pattern) etc. Within the bounds of these faces the various street segments would be made. Maybe the building generator could adapt to the area style as well...

I also wanted to be able to define main streets, smaller streets and side streets.

[Marian]

WOW, this is gonna be another amzing tool for sketchup, hoards of people will kneel before you and treat you like gods .

[Prisoner]

WOW, this is gonna be another amzing tool for sketchup, hoards of people will kneel before you and treat you like gods .

i will definitely be one of those worshiper! CityEngine inside SU, how great would that be

[Edson]

have you looked at Modelur? it is trying to do a similar plugin for urban design.

[McGyver]

Verrrrrry interesting!....

[remus]

WOW, this is gonna be another amzing tool for sketchup, hoards of people will kneel before you and treat you like gods .

thats the plan

On a more serious note, thom, that sounds like a great idea. id love to work on such a project. Perhaps start a separate thread instead of trying to hash it together in this one, though.

Oh, and found a pretty good resource with regards to parametric city generation: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/ ... gine/Front

its the bloke who made cityengine, and he's got all the papers he wrote on the subject there.

edit: fixed link

[thomthom]

On a more serious note, thom, that sounds like a great idea. id love to work on such a project. Perhaps start a separate thread instead of trying to hash it together in this one, though.

I want to make some illustrations to go with it, so once I've done them I'll make a new thread.

Oh, and found a pretty good resource with regards to parametric city generation: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/ ... gine/Front

its the bloke who made cityengine, and he's got all the papers he wrote on the subject there.

Nice find. I think I was referd to it before, but I lost the bookmark.

[Chris Fullmer]

Souds good. I'm very interested in this topic and I'd like to try to help shape how it develops. I have big dreams about how this should work.

Chris

[linea]

This sounds brilliant, I'm not a ruby man but if I can help by modelling some building types let me know.

[Dylan]

It's a really good idea and it is nice to see you guys helping each other out

[solo]

Food for thought:

http://www.procedural.com/

[craftycurate]

Has anyone made connections between Sketchup and the OSM file format shown in the CityEngine video?