Theatrical Text to 3D Virtual Scenography

Generation and visualization systems based on the principle of text-to-scene are powerful systems but they are not dedicated to the particular domain of theatre. Text-to-scene systems provide an intuitive way to easily create 3D environments for non-expert users. In this paper we propose a text-to-scene system dedicated to the theatre, which generates a 3D view based on the descriptive elements extracted from the theatrical text. Such a tool is designed to encourage the emergence of new methods in staging, research and teaching in the domain of the theatre. The works presented in this paper enable the elements of a theatrical production to be manipulated, with both a textual view and a 3D view. The 3D view is obtained from an automatic generation of a 3D environment, based on elements of scenography identified into the text by the user. Semantic annotations are added into the theatrical text to automatically obtain a visualization of a 3D virtual scenography. To encode the descriptive properties, the user adds tags, which identify semantic and descriptive information into the theatrical text. The tags are then used to calculate the location and the orientation of characters and objects in the resulting virtual scenography. The tags are also used to identify the emotional states, the postures of the characters, as well as the duration of each state in order to generate views of the scene.