Exploring Interactive Simulation of Grass Display Color Characteristic Based on Real-World Conditions

TL;DR

This paper presents a virtual simulation method for grass display color changes based on real-world conditions, aiming to reduce time and cost compared to traditional experimental approaches.

Contribution

It introduces an interactive simulation approach that accurately models grass color characteristics under various environmental conditions in a virtual environment.

Findings

The method accurately simulates grass color changes across multiple viewpoints.

It achieves comparable accuracy to previous experimental methods.

The approach reduces time and cost in simulating grass display characteristics.

Abstract

Recent research has focused on incorporating media into living environments via color-controlled materials and image display. In particular, grass-based displays have drawn attention as landscape-friendly interactive interfaces. To develop the grass display, it is important to obtain the grass color change characteristics that depend on the real environment. However, conventional methods require experiments on actual equipment every time the lighting or viewpoint changes, which is time-consuming and costly. Although research has begun on simulating grass colors, this approach still faces significant issues as it takes many hours for a single measurement. In this paper, we explore an interactive simulation of a grass display color change characteristic based on real-world conditions in a virtual environment. We evaluated our method's accuracy by simulating grass color characteristics across multiple viewpoints and environments, and then compared the results against prior work. The results indicated that our method tended to simulate the grass color characteristics similar to the actual characteristics and showed the potential to do so more quickly and with comparable accuracy to the previous study.