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--- plant_rendering [2008-07-14 11:14] – davegriffiths
+++ plant_rendering [2008-07-14 14:26] (current) – davegriffiths
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 Greenworks organic software: [[http://www.xfrogdownloads.com/]]
+== gen3 ==
+"parameter-driven tree model generator for Blender" > http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8080/bgen3/
+== lsystem ==
+An lsystem script for blender: http://jmsoler.free.fr/util/blenderfile/images/lsystem/lsystem.htm
 == Harry Potter 3 - Whomping willow ==
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-Very slow to compute, of course :)
+Very slow to compute, of course - though it might be possible to use some implicit surface mesh calculation, especially if it can be done offline occasionally, and procedurally skinned to a skeleton.
 === Online rendering ===
+A realtime tree rendering paper: http://www3.uji.es/~ribelles/Dept/Papers/Papers/dlsi_01032002.pdf
+Lots of multiresolution/simplification strategies.
+An approach using billboards (camera facing sprites): http://www.gametools.org/projects_udg/gt_ibr/papers/treeBillboardClouds.pdf
 == Autumn ==
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-The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) I was spawning hundreds of trees at a time - they were evolving using mutation errors of data encoded in seeds the trees dropped. I later moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. With a bit of texturing it looked like this:
+The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) I needed to be able to spawn hundreds of trees at a time - they were evolving using mutation errors of data encoded in seeds the trees dropped (and playing music as they grew). I later moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. With a bit of texturing it looked like this:
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