StyleDEM: a Versatile Model for Authoring Terrains
This addresses the need for stylized terrain authoring tools for designers in the entertainment industry, representing an incremental improvement by adding style capabilities to existing methods.
The authors tackled the lack of style control in terrain modeling for entertainment design by introducing StyleDEM, a GAN-based method that enables interactive authoring with style manipulation, achieving versatile synthesis from sketches or existing terrains.
Many terrain modelling methods have been proposed for the past decades, providing efficient and often interactive authoring tools. However, they generally do not include any notion of style, which is a critical aspect for designers in the entertainment industry. We introduce StyleDEM, a new generative adversarial network method for terrain synthesis and authoring, with a versatile toolbox of authoring methods with style. This method starts from an input sketch or an existing terrain. It outputs a terrain with features that can be authored using interactive brushes and enhanced with additional tools such as style manipulation or super-resolution. The strength of our approach resides in the versatility and interoperability of the toolbox.