Generating vast varieties of realistic leaves with parametric 2Gmap L-systems

  • Authors:
  • Alexandre Peyrat;Olivier Terraz;Stephane Merillou;Eric Galin

  • Affiliations:
  • XLIM – UMR CNRS, Département Mathématiques Informatique, avenue Albert Thomas, 87060, Limoges Cedex, France;XLIM – UMR CNRS, Département Mathématiques Informatique, avenue Albert Thomas, 87060, Limoges Cedex, France;XLIM – UMR CNRS, Département Mathématiques Informatique, avenue Albert Thomas, 87060, Limoges Cedex, France;Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, Bâtiment Nautibus, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Creating realistic plants and trees require the ability to generate thousands of leaves with different shapes and textures for different given species. This paper presents an original method to generate large atlases of leaves with many details from a single formal grammar. Leaves are described by a parameterized 2Gmap L-system that describes their evolution in shape and texture through out their entire life cycle. Our approach automatically synthesizes the deformations as well as the color and texture changes as the leaves age, as well as defects such as holes or cracks produced by insect attacks or accidents.