https://github.com/drewish/Cityscape

Generates simple geometric cityscapes in the style of Donald Crews
https://github.com/drewish/Cityscape

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Generates simple geometric cityscapes in the style of Donald Crews

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/drewish/Cityscape
• Owner: drewish
• Created: 2015-02-09T03:12:00.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-12-31T20:29:07.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-01T13:11:42.344Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.8 MB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Cityscape

![Flying](./flying_by_donald_crews.jpg)

This project was inspired by [Donald Crews' book Flying](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688092357).

My wife had gotten the book for our son, but having loved [Truck](http://www.amazon.com/Truck-Donald-Crews/dp/0688104819)

as a child, I fell in love with the style and thought it would be fun to spend

a weekend writing a program to generate a city in his style.

As I worked on an algorithm to divide a blocks into lots, I realized that rather

than a topic for a weekend project, it really a topic for a PhD thesis.

Fortunately. [Tom Kelly has already written that thesis](http://twak.blogspot.com/2014/02/unwritten-procedural-modeling-with.html),

and it's fascinating. His survey of procedural modeling techniques gave me a ton

of ideas and he's included an algorithm for using the block's straight skeleton

to partitioning it into lots.

The goal of this project is an app that will accept a series of roads, and

generate a city of buildings in Crews' style, around them. I decided to use the CGAL

library for its straight skeleton and that forced me to learn a lot about C++

templates, which slowed my progress. But as I've started to discover how to use

it, I found the breadth of CGAL's functionality to be amazing. It may not do it

fast, but it'll do it accurately.

![Screen shot of Cityscape](./SEEME.png)

## Installation

Clone this repo:

```

git clone https://github.com/drewish/Cityscape.git

```

Install my `triangulate-3d` branch of Cinder 0.9.1dev in a sibling directory:

```

git clone --recursive https://github.com/drewish/Cinder.git -b triangulate-3d

Cinder/xcode/fullbuild.sh

```

Install CGAL 4.11 using homebrew:

```

brew install cgal

```

Open the app up in Xcode:

```

open Cityscape/xcode/Cityscape.xcodeproj

```