GAN-Generated Terrain for Game Assets
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Multimedia applications, such as virtual reality models and video games, are increasingly interested in the ability to generate and author realistic virtual terrain automatically. In this paper, the author proposes a pipeline for a realistic two-dimensional terrain authoring framework that is powered by several different generative models that are applied one after the other. Two-dimensional role-playing games will benefit from this ability to create multiple high-resolution terrain variants from a single input image and to interpolate between terrains while keeping the terrains that are generated close to how the data is distributed in the real world.
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