Algorithmic Botany
I ‘ve been re-reading ‘Out of Control, The Biology of Machines’ and took some time to look up some of the people mentioned who are creating virtual plant life.
If you are interested in creating plants for artificial worlds, or to use to study botany you’ll want to start with the Algorithmic Botany website. There are tons of papers you can download, a book ‘The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants’ and every thing you need to know about ‘cpfg’ the Plant and Fractal generator with Continuous Parameters. Which is a program you can use to generate your own plants using the L-system ( Lindenmayer System ).
If you’d like to dig into the L grammar itself as well as generate plants check out GroIMP, open source Java 3D software for modeling growth grammars.
More information:
Wikipedia, L-system
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