Modeling plant life in computer graphics

Abstract

1 Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s). An introduction to plant modeling and recent advances in plant modeling in computer graphics. Recent years have seen a lot of progress in vegetation modeling We focus on the following three areas 1) Procedural and biological modeling 2) Reconstruction and inverse procedural modeling 3) User-assisted models 3