A VISUAL SIMULATION BY REALTIME CG OVERLAID ON THE VIDEO IMAGE OF A SCALE MODEL

Abstract

Considering psychological impact of environmental changes caused by building construction and urban development, we have to simulate the proposed environment in advance to examine our ideas and concepts whether or not they work as expected. The present report introduces a new simulation system, which uses both analogue and digital image to test psychological impact of the environment. In this new system, such movable elements as pedestrians and cars produced by real-time CG are overlaid on the static environmental background, which is video image of scale model space. A preliminary experiment was conducted to test the performance of the simulation system.