Research Article

A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations

Volume: 10 Number: 3 October 10, 2026
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A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations

Abstract

Transferring layered 2D illustrations to immersive fulldome environments is challenging: manual 3D modeling does not scale to scenes containing several hundred elements, while AI-based monocular depth estimation (MDE) suffers from domain shift on stylized and panoramic content and lacks deterministic artist control. Existing approaches address procedural automation, artist-driven calibration, and dome-specific layout separately rather than in one mixed-initiative pipeline. This study proposes a mixed-initiative procedural workflow that transforms layered 2D illustrations into 3D fulldome scenes with stable placement and billboard orientation under a fixed dome camera, requiring no recomputation under camera rotation. The system uses a horizon-parameterized depth mapping heuristic converting pictorial height into radial depth, cylindrical mapping for 360° layout, and figure-derived terrain fitting via implicit surface reconstruction. Hierarchical parametric calibration preserves artist control over depth and scale at global and category levels. The workflow was tested on a 400-element historical visualization project. It achieved full procedural placement coverage across eligible scene elements with no per-element manual correction, completed in three parameter-adjustment iterations. Across 400 automatically identified overlapping figure pairs, determined by pixel-level alpha-mask intersection without manual selection, occlusion-order consistency with source-layer relations was 357/400 (89.25%). The mean ground-contact correction after raycasting was 0.62 m, with 78% of corrections within ±1 m. Production time was estimated to improve approximately 30-fold. Rule-based depth mapping with mixed-initiative calibration thus offers a viable, deterministic, artist-controllable approach for fulldome scene assembly from stylized panoramic content.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Interior Architecture

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 10, 2026

Submission Date

April 30, 2026

Acceptance Date

September 22, 2026

Published in Issue

Year 2026 Volume: 10 Number: 3

APA
Yentür, H. (2026). A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research, 10(3), 436-449. https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1940932
AMA
1.Yentür H. A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research. 2026;10(3):436-449. doi:10.54864/planarch.1940932
Chicago
Yentür, Halim. 2026. “A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations”. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research 10 (3): 436-49. https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1940932.
EndNote
Yentür H (October 1, 2026) A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research 10 3 436–449.
IEEE
[1]H. Yentür, “A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations”, PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 436–449, Oct. 2026, doi: 10.54864/planarch.1940932.
ISNAD
Yentür, Halim. “A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations”. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research 10/3 (October 1, 2026): 436-449. https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1940932.
JAMA
1.Yentür H. A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research. 2026;10:436–449.
MLA
Yentür, Halim. “A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations”. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research, vol. 10, no. 3, Oct. 2026, pp. 436-49, doi:10.54864/planarch.1940932.
Vancouver
1.Halim Yentür. A Mixed-Initiative Procedural Workflow for Fulldome Scene Assembly from Layered 2D Illustrations. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research. 2026 Oct. 1;10(3):436-49. doi:10.54864/planarch.1940932

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