Stylization of virtual scenery

在计算机生成的电影和计算机游戏中发现的虚拟世界由熟练的数字艺术家创建的角色、对象和风景组成。虽然计算工具可以用来创建山、树和山形式的简单虚拟场景，但虚拟世界的创建者想要奇幻的效果。例如，在电影《汽车总动员》中，世界被设计成以汽车为中心的美学：鲜花像尾翼，山像轮盖。虚拟世界充斥着奇怪的、陌生的风景和古代的遗迹：参差不齐的树木长满了幽灵，每座小山后面都隐藏着破败的寺庙。这个项目将扩大计算机生成风景的范围，将风格化的自然风景和历史人工制品包括在内。计算机将创造出从正确的角度看起来像人的脸的树，以及当太阳从正确的方向照射时揭示古代文字的山脉。他们将制作雕塑、建筑装饰品、马赛克和各种其他艺术品。该项目创建的计算工具将允许艺术家为未来的数字娱乐创造更加生动、复杂和引人入胜的虚拟世界。

The virtual worlds found in computer-generated films and computer games are populated by characters, objects, and landscapes that are created by skilled digital artists. Although computational tools are available to create simple virtual scenery in the form of hills, trees, and mountains, the creators of virtual worlds want fantastical effects. In the movie Cars, for example, the world was designed with a car-centred aesthetic: flowers resembled tailfins, and mountains resembled hubcaps. Virtual worlds are populated by strange, alien scenery and by the remnants of antiquity: gnarled trees bristle with spirits, and ruined temples sprawl hidden behind every hill.This project will extend the range of computer-generated scenery to include stylized natural scenery and historical human-made artifacts. Computers will create trees which resemble human faces when seen from precisely the right angle, and mountains which reveal ancient writing when the sun shines from exactly the right direction. They will produce sculptures, architectural adornments, mosaics, and all manner of other artworks. The computational tools created by this project will allow artists to create ever more vivid, complex, and engaging virtual worlds for the digital entertainments of the future.