Development models of herbaceous plants for computer imagery purposes

  • Authors:
  • Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz;Aristid Lindenmayer;James Hanan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2;Theoretical Biology Group, University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '88 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

In this paper we present a method for modeling herbaceous plants, suitable for generating realistic plant images and animating developmental processes. The idea is to achieve realism by simulating mechanisms which control plant growth in nature. The developmental approach to the modeling of plant architecture is extended to the modeling of leaves and flowers. The method is expressed using the formalism of L-systems.