Procedural City Generation in Python

Awesome to see people excited about nontrivial proceduralism and willing to explain/open-source their code, but it's unfortunate they don't give any credit for their technique. It's a nearly direct implementation of the 2001 Siggraph paper "Procedural Modeling of Cities" by Parish and Müller. (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292 pdf easily available via google)

This comment is unrelated to the subject matter and that’s why i’ve made it separate from the parent comment [0] that triggered it.

I couldn’t help but notice the ‘.cfm’ extension in the acm.org link submitted by @mockery [1] so I thought i’d google a bit to see what tech infrastructure acm.org was running because i found it interesting they’d be using coldfusion. The search led me to a project on github [2] who’s file appeared in the results [3] and made me aware of ‘citeulike.org’. I did a quick search with algolia to check if citeulike.org hadn’t been submitted on hn already. This made me aware of user @sharpshoot and led me to research him a bit and bookmark his site so I can read about how he ‘made it’ (i’m an aspiring entrepreneur you see…).

Anyway all this made me wonder if there is a software that automatically does what I had to do manually, how efficient it would have to be and all the ethical issues surrounding it’s existence. Thin line between useful and scary…

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10288365

  [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292

  [2] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser

  [3] https://github.com/mikexstudios/citeulike-parser/blob/fe31d0ba6c8203364676a83911942dd4fb09e494/python/acm.py#L93

Now try and implement a structure such that the traffic is optimal for Cities: Skyline[1].

[1] http://www.skylineswiki.com/Traffic#Avoiding_traffic_problem...

Link to source: https://github.com/josauder/procedural_city_generation

This reminds of Introversions city-generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5YOFR1Wus

I believe the source was released somewhere, but I don't seem to be able to find it right now.

I've got to try hooking a minimal version of this up to Minecraft. I've just started getting my son into Python through Minecraft the Mcpipy library and Bukkit server on OSX. This would definitely take it to another level ;o)

Interesting, I'm glad that there is an updated city generator for Blender :)

Now you just need to add city zoning in (like I did for my dissertation) - http://www.blendernation.com/2010/04/26/city-zoning-modifica...

nice one!

Strange that it still depends on Blender 2.69.