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The paper introduces GardenDesigner, a framework leveraging a chain of agents and procedural modeling to automate the creation of Jiangnan gardens, a style of Chinese classical gardens. It encodes aesthetic principles through agents responsible for terrain generation, pathway creation, asset selection, and layout optimization. The system incorporates GardenVerse, a knowledge base of expert-annotated garden design principles, and allows non-experts to generate gardens via text input in a Unity interface.
Skip the years of landscape architecture school: GardenDesigner lets you generate aesthetically pleasing Jiangnan gardens from text prompts in under a minute.
Jiangnan gardens, a prominent style of Chinese classical gardens, hold great potential as digital assets for film and game production and digital tourism. However, manual modeling of Jiangnan gardens heavily relies on expert experience for layout design and asset creation, making the process time-consuming. To address this gap, we propose GardenDesigner, a novel framework that encodes aesthetic principles for Jiangnan garden construction and integrates a chain of agents based on procedural modeling. The water-centric terrain and explorative pathway rules are applied by terrain distribution and road generation agents. Selection and spatial layout of garden assets follow the aesthetic and cultural constraints. Consequently, we propose asset selection and layout optimization agents to select and arrange objects for each area in the garden. Additionally, we introduce GardenVerse for Jiangnan garden construction, including expert-annotated garden knowledge to enhance the asset arrangement process. To enable interaction and editing, we develop an interactive interface and tools in Unity, in which non-expert users can construct Jiangnan gardens via text input within one minute. Experiments and human evaluations demonstrate that GardenDesigner can generate diverse and aesthetically pleasing Jiangnan gardens. Project page is available at https://monad-cube.github.io/GardenDesigner.
