- Title
- Duplicating road patterns in south african informal settlements using procedural techniques
- Creator
- Glass, Kevin R, Morkel, Chantelle, Bangay, Shaun D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/432875
- Identifier
- vital:72909
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1108590.1108616
- Description
- The formation of informal settlements in and around urban complexes has largely been ignored in the context of procedural city modeling. However, many cities in South Africa and globally can attest to the presence of such settlements. This paper analyses the phenomenon of informal settlements from a procedural modeling perspective. Aerial photography from two South African urban complexes, namely Johannesburg and Cape Town is used as a basis for the extraction of various features that distinguish different types of settlements. In particular, the road patterns which have formed within such settlements are analysed, and various procedural techniques proposed (including Voronoi diagrams, subdivision and L-systems) to replicate the identified features. A qualitative assessment of the procedural techniques is provided, and the most suitable combination of techniques identified for unstructured and structured settlements. In particular it is found that a combination of Voronoi diagrams and subdivision provides the closest match to unstructured informal settlements. A combination of L-systems, Voronoi diagrams and subdivision is found to produce the closest pattern to a structured informal settlement.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa, Glass, K.R., Morkel, C. and Bangay, S.D., 2006, January. Duplicating road patterns in south african informal settlements using procedural techniques. In Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa (pp. 161-169), Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa volume 2006 number 1 161 169 2006 978-1-59593-288-4
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RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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