Infinite photorealistic worlds using procedural generation

A Raistrick, L Lipson, Z Ma, L Mei… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce Infinigen, a procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural
world. Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from …

Paleogeographic reconstructions using QGIS: Introducing Terra Antiqua plugin and its application to 30 and 50 Ma maps

J Aminov, G Dupont-Nivet, D Ruiz, B Gailleton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleogeographic maps play a central integrating role across all the disciplines of the Earth
System Sciences. They increasingly serve as boundary conditions for climate, earth, and life …

Multi‐model comparison of computed debris flow runout for the 9 January 2018 Montecito, California post‐wildfire event

KR Barnhart, RP Jones, DL George… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hazard assessment for post‐wildfire debris flows, which are common in the steep terrain of
the western United States, has focused on the susceptibility of upstream basins to generate …

Ten challenges for the future of pedometrics

AMJC Wadoux, GBM Heuvelink, RM Lark… - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Pedometrics, the application of mathematical and statistical methods to the study of the
distribution and genesis of soils, has broadened its scope over the past two decades. The …

The art of landslides: How stochastic mass wasting shapes topography and influences landscape dynamics

B Campforts, CM Shobe, I Overeem… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bedrock landslides shape topography and mobilize large volumes of sediment. Yet,
interactions between landslide‐produced sediment and fluvial systems that together govern …

Community workflows to advance reproducibility in hydrologic modeling: Separating model‐agnostic and model‐specific configuration steps in applications of large …

WJM Knoben, MP Clark, J Bales… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the proliferation of computer‐based research on hydrology and water resources,
such research is typically poorly reproducible. Published studies have low reproducibility …

Martian landscapes of fluvial ridges carved from ancient sedimentary basin fill

BT Cardenas, MP Lamb, JP Grotzinger - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Large sedimentary basins contain archives of Earth history. It is unknown to what extent
similar basins existed on Mars because there are few observations relating to the …

The impact of extreme rainstorms on escarpment morphology in arid areas: Insights from the central Negev Desert

Y Shmilovitz, F Marra, Y Enzel, E Morin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of climate on topography, which is a theme in landscape evolution studies, has
been demonstrated, mostly, at mountain range scales and across climate zones. However …

A method for assessing the long-term integrity of tailings dams

GR Hancock - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Mine tailings are a by-product of the processing of minerals. At most mines they are a waste
product that needs to be managed. Tailings composition and properties vary widely and are …

Simulation of Holocene soil erosion and sediment deposition processes in the Yellow River basin during the Holocene

H Zhao, Y Lin, J Zhou, CO Delang, H He - Catena, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yellow River Basin is ideal for studying fluvial landscape evolution under
climate change and human activities. Quantitative reconstruction of soil erosion, sediment …