The Virtual Laboratory

The Biological Modeling and Visualization group develops a set of related plant modeling software collectively called the Virtual Laboratory. This software includes:

• L-system-based simulators cpfg and lpfg:
  • cpfg User's Manual
  • Advanced graphics features of cpfg 3.0: a tutorial (quite old - needs updating)
  • lpfg User's Manual (old)
• Modeling environments vlab (for UNIX / Linux) and L-studio (for Windows):
  • The Virtual Laboratory for Linux version 1.0 (in preparation)
  • The Virtual Laboratory (old documentation)
  • The Virtual Laboratory (new documentation)
  • L-studio documentation
  • Download an evaluation version of L-studio
• Other related documentation:
  • Extensions to the graphical interpretation of L-systems based on turtle geometry
  • User's Manual for Environmental Programs

The Virtual Laboratory has users the world over: