Implicit Nested Repetition in Dataflow for Procedural Modeling

Creating 3D content requires a lot of expert knowledge and is often a very time consuming task. Procedural modeling can simplify this process for several application domains. However, creating procedural descriptions is still a complicated task. Graph based visual programming languages can ease the creation workflow, however direct manipulation of procedural 3D content rather than of a visual program is desirable as it resembles established techniques in 3D modeling. In this paper, we present a dataflow language that features a novel approach to handling loops in the context of direct interactive manipulation of procedural 3D models and show compilation techniques to translate it to traditional languages used in procedural modeling. Keywords-procedural modeling, dataflow graphs, loops, term graphs