• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3284-3306
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• 2018

This study proposes a method to develop an authoring system(GeoMaTree) for diverse trees that constitute a virtual landscape. The GeoMaTree system enables the simple, intuitive production of an efficient structure, and supports real-time processing. The core of the proposed system is a procedural modeling based on a mathematical model and an application that supports digital content creation on diverse platforms. The procedural modeling allows users to control the complex pattern of branch propagation through an intuitive process. The application is a multi-resolution 3D model that supports appropriate optimization for a tree structure. The application and a compatible function, with commercial tools for supporting the creation of realistic synthetic images and virtual landscapes, are implemented, and the proposed system is applied to a variety of 3D image content.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.9
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• pp.2232-2245
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• 2013

The present study proposes efficient procedural modeling methods for enabling the growth and creation of various trees with minimal user control. Growth volume algorithms are utilized in order to easily and effectively calculate many parameters that determine tree growth, including branch propagation. Procedural methods are designed so that users' interactive control structures can be applied to these algorithms to create unique tree models efficiently. First, through a two-line-based interactive growth volume control method, the growth information that determines the overall shape of the tree is intuitively adjusted. Thereafter, independent branch control methods designed to control individual branches are added to the growth deformation in order to enable the growth of unique trees. Whether the growth processes of desired trees can be easily and intuitively controlled by the proposed method is verified through experiments. Methods that can apply the proposed methods are also verified.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.450-459
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a new, easy-to-generate system that is capable of creating virtual 3D tree models and simulating a variety of growth processes of a tree from a single, real tree image. We not only construct various tree models with the same trunk through our proposed digital image matting method and skeleton-based abstraction of branches, but we also animate the visual growth of the constructed 3D tree model through usage of the branch age information combined with a scaling factor. To control the simulation of a tree growth process, we consider tree-growing attributes, such as branching orders, branch width, tree size, and branch self-bending effect, at the same time. Other invisible branches and leaves are automatically attached to the tree by employing parametric branch libraries under the conventional procedural assumption of structure having a local self-similarity. Simulations with a real image confirm that our system makes it possible to achieve realistic tree models and growth processes with ease.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.637-646
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• 2013

In order to model a variety of natural trees that are appropriate to outdoor terrains consisting of multiple trees, this study proposes a modeling method of new growth rules(based on the convolution sums of divisor functions). Basically, this method uses an existing growth-volume based algorithm for efficient management of the branches and leaves that constitute a tree, as well as natural propagation of branches. The main features of this paper is to introduce the theory of convolution sums of divisor functions that is naturally expressed the growth or fate of branches and leaves at each growth step. Based on this, a method of modeling various tree is proposed to minimize user control through a number of divisor functions having generalized generation functions and modification of the growth rule. This modeling method is characterized by its consideration of both branches and leaves as well as its advantage of having a greater effect on the construction of an outdoor terrain composed of multiple trees. Natural and varied tree model creation through the proposed method was conducted, and using this, the possibility of constructing a wide nature terrain and the efficiency of the process for configuring multiple trees were evaluated experimentally.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.143-150
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• 1999

The purpose of this research is to find som ways to model tree forms more efficiently in reference with surveying structural data and handling parameters in plant Editor of AccuRender, the AutoCAD-based rendering software adopting the procedural plant modeling technique. In case of modelling a new tree, because it is efficient to modify an existing tree data as a template, we attempted to classify 81 species' data from existing plant library including conifers and deciduous tree. According to the qualitative characteristics and quantitative parameters of geometrical and branching structure, 8 types of tree form were classified with factor and cluster analysis. Some critical aspects found in the distributions of standardized scores of parameters in each type were discussed for explaining the tree forms intuitively. For adaptability of the resulted classification and typical parameters, 10 species of tree were measured and modelled, and proved to be very similar to the real structures of tree forms. CG or CAD-based plant modelling technique would be recommended not only as a presentation tool but for planting design, landscape simulation and assessment.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.34 no.1_2
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• pp.145-156
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• 2016

It is known that certain convolution sums can be expressed as a combination of divisor functions and Bernoulli formula. In this article, we consider relationship between fifth-order combinatoric convolution sums of divisor functions and Bernoulli polynomials. As applications of these identities, we give a concrete interpretation in terms of the procedural modeling method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.362-363
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 한 장의 실제 나무 영상이 주어졌을 시, 사실적인 3차원 나무 모델링(modeling) 및 자가생장(self-growth) 표현을 위한 방법을 소개하도록 한다. 스켈레톤기반의 간략화(skeleton-based abstraction)를 이용하여 동일한 나무 몸통(trunk)을 갖는 다양한 나무 모델생성과 함께 나무의 다면체구조(manifold structure)를 고려한 지오데식 커널(geodesic kernel)을 이용하여 나무의 자가생장을 표현한다. 나무의 자가생장은 사전 정의된 나무 굵기, 전체 크기, 그리고 가지증식 순서정보와 같은 상대적 성장정보(allometric information)를 동시 이용하여 상대적인 나무 생장(allometric tree growth)을 표현하도록한다. 한편, 보여지지않는 나무 가지와 잎들에 대해선, 나무구조는 로컬하게 자기유사성(local self-similarity)을 갖는다라는 고전적인 절차적(conventional procedural) 가정을 이용하여 자동적으로 생성토록한다. 실제영상을 이용한 몇몇들의 실험을 통해 보다 효과적으로 나무 모델 및 생장 표현이 가능함을 보여주도록한다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.947-956
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• 2021

As an interest in metaverse increases, there are many studies to apply virtual reality to indirect experiences. Virtual reality is increasingly being used not only for entertainment such as games but also for educational content. A key technology of indirect experience is modeling an object to provide a realistic experience to the user. Natural environments such as tidal flats change with time, and many living things also live there. In this paper, we propose a method for creating experiential content that accurately models the ecological environment of tidal flats. The proposed method explains how to naturally model the temporal change of tidal flats. We also explain how to model a crab, a creature that inhabits the tidal flat, in the forms of an NPC using the behavior tree. Implementation results show that the proposed method uses simple algorithms but expresses the shapes of tidal flats well.