3D Shape Reconstruction and Realistic Rendering of Flowering Rape (Brassica napus L.)

Abstract

This paper presents a fast and efficient method for modeling the flowering rape (Brassica napus L.). Based on the analysis and observation of the morphological structure of rape, Ball B-splines based method has been used for modeling the shape of rape organs, with use of template technology to describe local detail features and to augment the realistic effects, and several principal control parameters with explicit biological background for these geometric models of organs were extracted. The proposed methods for modeling the 3D shape of organs and simulating rape could be integrated easily with agricultural knowledge, and the generated morphological models have realistic effects. The flexibility and suitability of the proposed methods can be applied to the visual simulation of the different varieties of plant.