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Re: Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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Post by NelsonMinar » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 4:15 PM UTC

I'm impressed with the complexity here. For folks wanting to take it for a quick spin... The tutorial is great but takes a few minutes to get to the fun. Instead just play with the sliders in the right pane and see how it modifies the fern. Also click library and load some other models to see what it can do.

You can tell this is brand new because there are no penises to load in the user submitted models yet.

Re: Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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Post by seism » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

Fantastic. I can't wait to see a whole forest of crowdsourced algorithmic plants. Is this connected to any scientific projects? A cool feature would be an AI botanist that tells you how likely your plant would survive, what's the closest taxonomic reference, a nice recipe to go along with boiled rice,...

Re: Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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Post by andrewflnr » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 4:49 PM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #9

Looks very nice, one small problem - when I change the values, the camera seems to "shake" because the shape of the plant changes, so it has to constantly readjust, and it's kind of annoying (at least for me). Maybe it could be possible to freeze the camera while the parameters are being changed?