Semi-Automatic Building Layout Generation for Virtual Environments

摘要: Creating floor plan layouts for houses, offices, hotels, or videogame levels is time-consuming. In several applications, the process starts with a bubble diagram or graph derived from a client’s requirements, which is then used as a basis for drawing a blueprint to continue the design process. That process requires a tool to preserve consistency between design models and diminish the design time. Hence, we have developed a Unity plugin to graphically represent a building layout using nodes and edges for rooms and doors that also allow defining the size and aspect ratio of spaces. This abstract representation is then automatically converted into a blueprint and optimized for explicit constraints (doors, size, and ratio) and implicit ones (tightness, convexity) by applying stochastic hill-climbing or steepest ascent hill-climbing algorithms. Then, the user can edit that blueprint further. As a final result, the tool generates a …