Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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.

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

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Post by catapart » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 3:37 PM UTC

Amazing! I love how immediate, and straightforward it is. Easy to understand and fun to play around with!

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

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Post by spacecadet » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 3:40 PM UTC

Super cool! Ive been building some 2D simulations using Pygame lately, so enjoy a good simulation project!

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

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Post by phito » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

That is extremely cool! I like the stem 'thiccness' parameter :)

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

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Post by Tiberium » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

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?

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Post by djsavvy » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

hx2a wrote: post #3

This is a neat project but it doesn't seem to render the plant at the moment. It did render plants 20 minutes ago - perhaps the HN load has hurt it? All of the code is available online, with great documentation. There is, in fact, a server back end for this project: https://github.com/jim-fx/plantarium/tree/main https://github.com/jim-fx/plantarium/blob/main/ARCHITECTURE.... I will be back in a few days when it is wo…

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