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A Procedural Building Generator Based on Real-World Data Enabling Designers to Create Context for XR Automotive Design Experiences

  • Despoina Salpisti
  • , Matthias de Clerk
  • , Sebastian Hinz
  • , Frank Henkies
  • , Gudrun Klinker
  • Innovations
  • Technical University of Munich

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Automotive design is inspired by certain experiences and is intended to evoke certain emotions in the user. To evaluate the ability of the design to facilitate such experiences, automotive designers need to experience not just any driving simulation, but one with the right environmental context. However, this comes with numerous challenges related to the amount of resources required to build such virtual environments and the communication between designers and developers. Therefore, we developed a procedural building generator based on real-world data to enable experiences that reflect reality, to create a common language between designers and developers and to enable designers to generate their own experience context. The generator consists of facade module generators that function based on a molecular design concept, using and combining the smallest basic elements of the facade modules. A range of architectural styles, found in three different cities, were chosen for their large automotive market and require only these basic elements for the facade module generators, making it easy, inexpensive and time-saving to add other architectural elements and consequently provide variety. The result is a building generator that provides highly stable outputs and makes designers independent in creating buildings for their design simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVirtual Reality and Mixed Reality - 19th EuroXR International Conference, EuroXR 2022, Proceedings
EditorsGabriel Zachmann, Mariano Alcañiz Raya, Partrick Bourdot, Maud Marchal, Jeanine Stefanucci, Xubo Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages149-170
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9783031162336
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event19th EuroXR International Conference, EuroXR 2022 - Stuttgart, Germany
Duration: 14 Sep 202216 Sep 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13484 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th EuroXR International Conference, EuroXR 2022
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityStuttgart
Period14/09/2216/09/22

Keywords

  • Automotive design
  • Mixed reality experience prototyping
  • Procedural building generation

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