SAFE: Structure-aware facade editing

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 83 - 93
• Main Authors: Dang, Minh, Ceylan, Duygu, Neubert, Boris, Pauly, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2014
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Analysis; Architecture; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Computer graphics; Editing; Facades; I.3.5 [Computer Graphics] Computer Graphics-Computational Geometry and Object Modeling; Interactive; Preserves; Regularity; Studies; Symmetry
• ISSN: 0167-7055; 1467-8659
• DOI: 10.1111/cgf.12313

Many man‐made objects, in particular building facades, exhibit dominant structural relations such as symmetry and regularity. When editing these shapes, a common objective is to preserve these relations. However, often there are numerous plausible editing results that all preserve the desired structural relations of the input, creating ambiguity. We propose an interactive facade editing framework that explores this structural ambiguity. We first analyze the input in a semi‐automatic manner to detect different groupings of the facade elements and the relations among them. We then provide an incremental editing process where a set of variations that preserve the detected relations in a particular grouping are generated at each step. Starting from one input example, our system can quickly generate various facade configurations.