Survey of integrability of procedural modeling techniques for generating a complete city

Abstract

This article presents an overview of integrability of procedural modeling techniques needed to create a complete virtual city with streets, roads, building lots, exteriors and interiors with arranged furniture. Techniques are distributed into four hierarchies: urban plan, buildings, interior and furniture. Each technique is analyzed from the aspect of control of space definition, style uniformity, automatic interaction with other hierarchies and ability to procedurally generate a result around existing content. Each paper presented in this survey contributes either as a new control feature that has a potential of integrating with other techniques of higher, lower or same level of hierarchy, or as a new important part for creating a complete procedural city from highest to lowest level of hierarchy. The paper is concluded with a discussion of strong links between each area in the chain and important challenges in procedural generation of a complete city.