Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 49 - 61
• Main Authors: Hädrich, Torsten, Benes, Bedrich, Deussen, Oliver, Pirk, Sören
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2017
• Subjects: Animation; Anisotropy; Authoring; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Changing environments; Computational fluid dynamics; Computer based modeling; Computer graphics; Drag; Flowers & plants; I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques–‐Interaction Techniques; I.6.8 [Simulation and Modeling]: Types of Simulation—Visual; Interactive control; Interactive systems; Modelling; Particle physics; Physics; Plants (botany)

We present a novel system for the interactive modeling of developmental climbing plants with an emphasis on efficient control and plausible physics response. A plant is represented by a set of connected anisotropic particles that respond to the surrounding environment and to their inner state. Each...