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Procedural ships urban modeling tool.(PRODUCT: MODELING)(Brief article)

Computer Graphics World

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Procedural, a newly formed software company, debuted its unique procedural modeling solution, CityEngine, which is now shipping. The urban-modeling tool enables users to model entire cities as much as 10 times faster than with previous solutions, making it ideal for architectural visualization as well as computer games, feature films, and Web applications.

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CityEngine contains a number of procedural modeling tools for generating large-scale urban layouts. At the software's core is a unique shape grammar for efficiently creating detailed building models; the grammar supports a rules-based production scheme of architectural content at arbitrary levels of detail.

The software can produce as many buildings and objects as desired, and in any style or ...

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