The Artificial Life of Plants

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz¹, Mark Hammel¹, Radomir Mech¹, and Jim Hanan²

¹Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
e-mail: pwp|hammel|mech@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

²CSIRO - Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Pest Management
Brisbane, Australia
e-mail: jim@ctpm.uq.oz.au

Abstract

In these notes we survey applications of L-systems to the modeling of plants, with an emphasis on the results obtained since the comprehensive presentation of this area in The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The new developments include:

Keywords: L-system, fractal, plant, modeling, simulation, realistic image synthesis, emergence, artificial life.

Reference

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel, Radomir Mech, and Jim Hanan. The artificial life of plants. In Artificial life for graphics, animation, and virtual reality, volume 7 of SIGGRAPH '95 Course Notes, pages 1-1 - 1-38. ACM SIGGRAPH, 1995.

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