Procedural methods are a promising but underused alternative to manual content creation.
Commonly heard drawbacks are the randomness of and the lack of control over the output …

Hundreds of millions of people play computer games every day. For them, game content—
from 3D objects to abstract puzzles—plays a major entertainment role. Manual labor has so …

Procedural modelling deals with (semi‐) automatic content generation by means of a
program or procedure. Among other advantages, its data compression and the potential to …

Evolutionary algorithms are commonly used to create high-performing strategies or agents
for computer games. In this paper, we instead choose to evolve the racing tracks in a car …

We introduce a procedural content generation (PCG) framework at the intersections of
experience-driven PCG and PCG via reinforcement learning, named ED (PCG) RL, EDRL in …

Urban spaces consist of a complex collection of buildings, parcels, blocks and
neighbourhoods interconnected by streets. Accurately modelling both the appearance and …

The computer game industry requires a skilled workforce and this combined with the
complexity of modern games, means that production costs are extremely high. One of the …

Film and game studios can no longer meet audience demand for visual content by
increasing production budgets. Instead they are turning to procedural modeling, particularly …

Contemporary 3D games are often situated within large urban environments. This
necessitates a time-consuming and expensive content creation process involving the …

In contrast to common perceptions, the urban water infrastructure system is a complex and
dynamic system that is constantly evolving and adapting to changes in the urban …