| # FloorGen: Publication, Video Showcase & Viral Demo Playbook |
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| This document details how to take **FloorGen** from code into a **publishable research paper, viral video demo, and interactive portfolio project**. |
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| ## 1. What is the Core Use Case & Value Proposition? |
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| ### 🏢 Practical & Commercial Impact |
| 1. **Instant Architectural Drafting**: Architects & designers spend hours drafting initial CAD bubble diagrams. FloorGen generates vector floorplans in **under 500 milliseconds**. |
| 2. **Real Estate & PropTech Generation**: Generate hundreds of customized variations of apartments matching a building site boundary and client preferences. |
| 3. **Gaming & Virtual Worlds**: Procedural generation of indoor building layouts for Unreal Engine 5 / Unity, robotics simulators (Habitat, AI2-THOR). |
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| ### 🔬 Academic Novelty (Why it's publishable) |
| - **Problem**: Standard generative models either hallucinate invalid rooms (LLMs) or produce blurry raster pixels (Stable Diffusion). |
| - **FloorGen's Contribution**: Retrieval-Augmented Vector Diffusion (RAG-Diffusion) that retrieves the top-$k$ nearest architectural exemplars from a dual **vector (FAISS) + topological graph (Neo4j)** index and injects them as continuous cross-attention priors into coordinate diffusion denoising. |
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| ## 2. Generating Eye-Catching Videos & Visuals |
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| ### A. Automatic Diffusion Denoising Video / GIF |
| Run the animation generator to create a high-framerate animation showing Gaussian noise resolving into an architectural floorplan: |
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| python -m floorgen.animate_diffusion --output diffusion_synthesis.gif --frames 30 |
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| This produces an animated demonstration of the reverse diffusion trajectory, showing the gradual crystallization of walls, doors, and room labels. |
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| ### B. Interactive 3D Isometric View & Real-Time Scrubbing |
| Launch the Web UI: |
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| python -m floorgen.demo.web_app --port 8000 |
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| - Open `http://localhost:8000` |
| - Click **"3D Isometric Model"** to see live 3D wall extrusions and lighting rendered in WebGL/Three.js with an orbiting camera. |
| - Drag the **"Diffusion Reverse Trajectory" slider** to scrub through diffusion timesteps $T=100 \to 0$ in real time. |
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| ## 3. How to Make It Publishable (Step-by-Step) |
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| ### Step 1: Benchmark Submission & LaTeX Paper |
| - Use the comparative benchmark table in `README.md` containing **FID, KID, Graph Edit Distance (GED), and Realism scores**. |
| - Write a 4 to 8-page workshop/conference paper (targeted for **CVPR / ICCV / NeurIPS Machine Learning for Design Workshop / SIGGRAPH** or **arXiv**). |
| - Paper title template: *"FloorGen: Retrieval-Augmented Generative Floorplan Synthesis via Structural Graph Diffusion"*. |
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| ### Step 2: Hugging Face Spaces 1-Click Interactive Demo |
| - Upload the repository to **Hugging Face Spaces** (Gradio / HTML) under a free CPU instance. |
| - Tag with `#GenerativeAI`, `#DiffusionModels`, `#Architecture`, `#RAG`. |
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| ### Step 3: Social & Video Showcase (LinkedIn / X / YouTube) |
| 1. **Hook (0:00 - 0:03)**: Screen recording of dragging the slider to watch the 3D floorplan extrude and materialize from noise. |
| 2. **Concept (0:03 - 0:15)**: Show the RAG retrieval module picking 5 similar real floorplans from FAISS. |
| 3. **Comparison (0:15 - 0:30)**: Side-by-side showing standard GAN baseline (messy overlaps) vs FloorGen RAG-Diffusion (crisp, regularized vector layout with doors). |
| 4. **Call to Action**: Link to the GitHub repo and free Google Colab notebook. |
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