Re: Generation Streets Free Download
Edelmiro Jimale
@romanshuvalov will be possible to know how you can get to generate the streets from OSM data.
Attempting to achieve the same on Houdini to be used in a realtime engine (russian made btw) but with no luck so fa.
As it is a medieval world, I don't want a grid plan like many modern cities. I would ideally prefer a pseudo-random generation of large avenues and smaller streets, where it could be possible to get lost, but with still some logic - not a complete labyrinth.
Something that would look like a naturally grown town.
A good place to start with procedural city generation is Parish and Müller's Procedural Modeling of Cities. Their paper presents an L-System in which rules concerning population density & road patterns (rectangular grid, radial & least elevation change) are combined and then fixed to accommodate local constraints such as water fronts & road aesthetics. While the results of this system are impressive, it has been criticized as being unnecessarily complicated. Barrett's alternative solution is restated in Rudzicz's Spare Parts dev blog as follows:
First of all, there are loooooot of ways to do procedural generation and none of them is easy at all, i will make kind of approach to how you could make it work, is up to you take it, modify it or discard it.
3º now you only have to interconnect the avenues with short streets, also, you could spawn random squares all along the town and make the same as above for all of them, or just spawn small streets from some secundary squares, it's up to you.
The majority of road generation systems I have looked at tend to be based on a growth system. The general algorithm (see page 15, Section 3.2 of this paper) for pretty much all of them is pretty simple.
I've read up on L-Systems, read Parish & Muller and Kelly & McCabe, and tried implementing this, but I'm really not having any luck at all (all my streets tend to go in one direction, never branch, etc.). Can anyone provide some source code, or some sort of reference implementation that generates a system of City Streets (preferably along the lines of Parish & Muller, but at this point, I'll try anything). I've been working on this for weeks now, and getting nowhere fast.
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Abstract:Extracting highly detailed and accurate road network information from crowd-sourced vehicle trajectory data, which has the advantages of being low cost and able to update fast, is a hot topic. With the rapid development of wireless transmission technology, spatial positioning technology, and the improvement of software and hardware computing ability, more and more researchers are focusing on the analysis of Global Positioning System (GPS) trajectories and the extraction of road information. Road intersections are an important component of roads, as they play a significant role in navigation and urban planning. Even though there have been many studies on this subject, it remains challenging to determine road intersections, especially for crowd-sourced vehicle trajectory data with lower accuracy, lower sampling frequency, and uneven distribution. Therefore, we provided a new intersection-first approach for road network generation based on low-frequency taxi trajectories. Firstly, road intersections from vector space and raster space were extracted respectively via using different methods; then, we presented an integrated identification strategy to fuse the intersection extraction results from different schemes to overcome the sparseness of vehicle trajectory sampling and its uneven distribution; finally, we adjusted road information, repaired fractured segments, and extracted the single/double direction information and the turning relationships of the road network based on the intersection results, to guarantee precise geometry and correct topology for the road networks. Compared with other methods, this method shows better results, both in terms of their visual inspections and quantitative comparisons. This approach can solve the problems mentioned above and ensure the integrity and accuracy of road intersections and road networks. Therefore, the proposed method provides a promising solution for enriching and updating navigable road networks and can be applied in intelligent transportation systems.Keywords: low frequency; crowd-sourced vehicle trajectories; intersections; fusion; road network
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The extent of female service members' involvement in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), in terms of both the number of women deployed and the scope of their involvement, is unprecedented. While many of the mental health readjustment issues of female service members are likely to mirror those of the majority male Veteran population, this newest generation of women Veterans may also face unique threats to their mental health. The goal of this review it to highlight emerging issues relevant to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among women deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan by reviewing the existing literature on gender-relevant issues among this cohort, as well as raising theoretically important issues that are worthy of further empirical investigation. Topics addressed include gender differences in combat experiences and in PTSD following combat exposure; sexual assault, sexual harassment and other interpersonal stressors experienced during deployment; women Veterans' experiences of premilitary trauma exposure; and unique stressors faced by women Veterans during the homecoming readjustment period. Given that most models of the impact of war zone deployment on PTSD are predicated on the experiences of male service members, women's expanding role in combat operations presents both an opportunity and a challenge to adapt these models to more effectively capture the experiences of female service members.
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