Procedural Modeling of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings

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Durand, Fredo; Whiting, Emily Jing Wei; Ochsendorf, John A.
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Abstract
We introduce structural feasibility into procedural modeling of buildings. This allows for more realistic structural models that can be interacted with in physical simulations. While existing structural analysis tools focus heavily on providing an analysis of the stress state, our proposed method automatically tunes a set of designated free parameters to obtain forms that are structurally sound.
Date issued
2009-12
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73112
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Emily Whiting, John Ochsendorf, and Frédo Durand. 2009. Procedural modeling of structurally-sound masonry buildings. ACM Trans. Graph. 28, 5, Article 112 (December 2009), 9 pages.
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0730-0301
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