Growing virtual plants for virtual worlds

  • Authors:
  • Katarína Smoleňová;Reinhard Hemmerling

  • Affiliations:
  • BTU Cottbus, Germany;BTU Cottbus, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

As plants are an inevitable part of our world, virtual plants are an expected part of a virtual environment. We present a method for creating, growing and visualization of virtual plants in the virtual world. Plants are created in the open-source 3D modelling platform GroIMP, which is based on growth grammars implemented as the programming language XL (eXtended L-system language). Textures created from photographs of the plants are used to enhance realism of the models.