Abstract: By exploiting the fact that Chinese ancient architecture followed a set of rigorous construction constraints,a rapid modeling approach based on semantic rules is presented.A set of semantic rules from the construction constraints of Chinese ancient architecture along with a series of parameterized primary features of these buildings are established to control the generation of models.Meanwhile,we define a set of modeling primitives named components.Under the guidance of rules,these components are transformed and combined to generate diverse Chinese ancient architecture models.By using different kind of textures,we can produce architecture models with various styles.