Patent ID: 11880930
Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method for content creation via interactive layers, comprising:
receiving parameters for creating an artefact representing an environment;
generating layers for the artefact, wherein each layer of the artefact represents a different feature of the artefact based on different arrangements of the data units of the mutable general object associated with the artefact, each layer comprising:
obtaining for one of the layers of the artefact, data from at least one of the other layers located prior to the one layer, wherein the data comprises information about an arrangement of the data units for the prior layers; and
creating the layer by using procedural content generation to mutate the data units in the mutable general object based on the data from one or more of the prior layers and the received parameters;

compiling the created layers into the artefact via the mutable general object;
assigning a unique identifier to each of the created layers;
compositing for the artefact the identifiers for the created layers;
storing the composited identifiers; and
reconstructing the environment after the storage by reconfiguring the artefact using the composited identifiers, wherein the reconstructed environment is same as the environment.