METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A PROCEDURAL MAP FROM AN EXTERNAL PARAMETER SUCH AS AN IMAGE CHARACTERISTIC

摘要

The inventive method for generating a procedural map (50) which is tree-structured (40) and comprises a plurality of stages (43) each of which has at least one node (41) to which at least one parameter is assigned consists in delivering a parameterising tool for parameterising the tree corresponding to the producible map and connectable to at least one external source of parameters, in receiving the producible map parameters by means of said parameterising tool (or procedural map generating tool), wherein at least one parameter is received from said external source and in processing the parameters in such a way that the inventive map is generated. The parameters and structure of said map make it possible to produce special effects for image processing engineering. A generating and/or modifying tool for carrying out said method is also disclosed.