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# Project 4: Shape Grammar

For this assignment you'll be building directly off of Project 3. To make things easier to keep track of, please fork and clone this repository [https://github.com/CIS700-Procedural-Graphics/Project4-Shape-Grammar](https://github.com/CIS700-Procedural-Graphics/Project4-Shape-Grammar) and copy your Project 3 code to start.

**Goal:** to model an urban environment using a shape grammar.

**Note:** We’re well aware that a nice-looking procedural city is a lot of work for a single week. Focus on designing a nice building grammar. The city layout strategies outlined in class (the extended l-systems) are complex and not expected. We will be satisfied with something reasonably simple, just not a uniform grid!

## Symbol Node (5 points)
Modify your symbol node class to include attributes necessary for rendering, such as
- Associated geometry instance
- Position
- Scale
- Anything else you may need

## Grammar design (55 points)
- Design at least five shape grammar rules for producing procedural buildings. Your buildings should vary in geometry and decorative features (beyond just differently-scaled cubes!). At least some of your rules should create child geometry that is in some way dependent on its parent’s state. (20 points)
- Eg. A building may be subdivided along the x, y, or z axis into two smaller buildings
- Some of your rules must be designed to use some property about its location. (10 points)
- Your grammar should have some element of variation so your buildings are non-deterministic. Eg. your buildings sometimes subdivide along the x axis, and sometimes the y. (10 points)
- Write a renderer that will interpret the results of your shape grammar parser and adds the appropriate geometry to your scene for each symbol in your set. (10 points)

## Create a city (30 points)
- Add a ground plane or some other base terrain to your scene (0 points, come on now)
- Using any strategy you’d like, procedurally generate features that demarcate your city into different areas in an interesting and plausible way (Just a uniform grid is neither interesting nor plausible). (20 points)
- Suggestions: roads, rivers, lakes, parks, high-population density
- Note, these features don’t have to be directly visible, like high-population density, but they should somehow be visible in the appearance or arrangement of your buildings. Eg. High population density is more likely to generate taller buildings
- Generate buildings throughout your city, using information about your city’s features. Color your buildings with a method that uses some aspect of its state. Eg. Color buildings by height, by population density, by number of rules used to generate it. (5 points)
- Document your grammar rules and general approach in the readme. (5 points)
- ???
- Profit.

## Make it interesting (10)
Experiment! Make your city a work of art.


## Warnings:
You can very easily blow up three.js with this assignment. With a very simple grammar, our medium quality machine was able to handle 100 buildings with 6 generations each, but be careful if you’re doing this all CPU-side.

## Suggestions for the overachievers:
Go for a very high level of decorative detail!
Place buildings with a strategy such that buildings have doors and windows that are always accessible.
Generate buildings with coherent interiors
If dividing your city into lots, generate odd-shaped lots and create building meshes that match their shape ie. rather than working with cubes, extrude upwards from the building footprints you find to generate a starting mesh to subdivide rather than starting with platonic geometry.
[MINIS-TIRITH](https://mccannd.github.io/Project4-Shape-Grammar/)

Mini-Minas Tirith!

Controls:
-Iterate to advance the shape grammar stage
-Clear to completely reset the city.
-Volume to adjust the music

Grammar rules:
-Each floor / tier will distribute houses radially according to a 'population map' which coincidentally modeled by perlin noise
-Walls can spawn towers and emplacements
-Emplacements can spawn more houses
-Houses can subdivide into more houses or halt with a roof
-The city will boost by one tier each iteration

Other notes:
- Light is using shadow-mapping a directional light, and a hemisphere light. No custom shaders until I can figure out how to access the map
- Merging all of the meshes into one call is very helpful
- The mountain terrain is procedurally generated as well
- Once the city reaches its full height, a particular movie scene plays...
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var colors = require('colors');
var path = require('path');
var git = require('simple-git')(__dirname);
var deploy = require('gh-pages-deploy');
var packageJSON = require('require-module')('./package.json');

var success = 1;
git.fetch('origin', 'master', function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
git.status(function(err, status) {
if (err) throw err;
if (!status.isClean()) {
success = 0;
console.error('Error: You have uncommitted changes! Please commit them first'.red);
}

if (status.current !== 'master') {
success = 0;
console.warn('Warning: Please deploy from the master branch!'.yellow)
}

git.diffSummary(['origin/master'], function(err, diff) {
if (err) throw err;

if (diff.files.length || diff.insertions || diff.deletions) {
success = 0;
console.error('Error: Current branch is different from origin/master! Please push all changes first'.red)
}

if (success) {
var cfg = packageJSON['gh-pages-deploy'] || {};
var buildCmd = deploy.getFullCmd(cfg);
deploy.displayCmds(deploy.getFullCmd(cfg));
deploy.execBuild(buildCmd, cfg);
}
})
})
})
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HW4: ShapeGrammars</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
canvas {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script src="bundle.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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{
"scripts": {
"start": "webpack-dev-server --hot --inline",
"build": "webpack",
"deploy": "node deploy.js"
},
"gh-pages-deploy": {
"prep": [
"build"
],
"noprompt": true
},
"dependencies": {
"dat-gui": "^0.5.0",
"gl-matrix": "^2.3.2",
"stats-js": "^1.0.0-alpha1",
"three": "^0.82.1",
"three-orbit-controls": "^82.1.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"babel-core": "^6.18.2",
"babel-loader": "^6.2.8",
"babel-preset-es2015": "^6.18.0",
"colors": "^1.1.2",
"gh-pages-deploy": "^0.4.2",
"simple-git": "^1.65.0",
"webpack": "^1.13.3",
"webpack-dev-server": "^1.16.2",
"webpack-glsl-loader": "^1.0.1"
}
}
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