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What makes this a simulation and not just a model?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
We use things like this in 3D art and animation. For example the paint system in Maya. This was used to create the forests in Shrek.
Question to OP… have you considered making this available as a Blender plugin?
This is so useful and nice for so many reasons. A well written browser based node graph editor that can create procedural 3d meshes _and_ export as .obj _and_ you've permissively licensed it. This could be the seed for a whole host of procedural tools. Thank you Jim.
I have a lot of ideas for further usecases for this tool, and I am probably going to write my bachelor thesis about it :)
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.
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?
That is extremely cool! I like the stem 'thiccness' parameter :)
That is amazing, they really look like plants!
What makes this a simulation and not just a model?
I guess because it is procedurally based, likely using an L-system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system We use things like this in 3D art and animation. For example the paint system in Maya. This was used to create the forests in Shrek. Question to OP… have you considered making this available as a Blender plugin?
The graph editor is really, really well done, congrats.
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,...
Not connected to any scientific projects, just a nerd that likes plants. But projects can have a gbif.org id and then some extra information is loaded through the gbif api :)
As far as I can tell this uses WebGL, I wonder if you could get these results just as easily using WebGPU