Presentation
Designing Digital Topography: Opportunities for Greater Efficiency with a Primitives and Operators Approach
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Conference
2015 Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Conference Title
Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure
Conference Date
June 2-3, 2015
Geolocation
(42.0307812, -93.63191310000002)
Abstract
This paper focuses on characterizing proposed human-built topographic forms and describing them parametrically. Two basic approaches exist for characterizing shape algorithmically: parametric descriptions, which describe discrete geometries, and non-parametric methods, which for the most part work on fields. This paper offers a brief overview of the range of parametric modeling options for topography, a set of criteria that need to be fulfilled for any successful landform design system, and a primitives and operators approach that offers some specific advantages in the AMG context.
Copyright Owner
Iowa State University
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Caroline Westort. "Designing Digital Topography: Opportunities for Greater Efficiency with a Primitives and Operators Approach" Ames, IAProceedings of the 2015 Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure (2015) p. 224 - 236 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/caroline-westort/1/
This is a paper from Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Autonomous and Robotic Construction of Infrastructure, which can be found in full at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/intrans_reports/141/.