Introduction For over thirty years, botanists and computer scientists have made considerable efforts to develop effective methods to synthetically generate natural objects. As early as in 1966 the first method for the simulation of a branching structure via a computer was introduced. This method used the so-called cellular automatons, an arrangement of square cells on […]
Category: Digital Design of Nature
Foreword
It has been over 40 years since Stanislaw Ulam published his pioneering work on computer models of branching structures. In the period that followed, plant modeling has become an area of active interdisciplinary research. On one hand, biologists are interested in plant models as a means for better understanding the fundamental mechanisms that govern plant […]
Digital Design of Nature
What is computer graphics and what are the conceptual tasks of research in this area? To the average person the term still conveys more or less the design of logos and the manipulation of pictures with the help of image-editing programs. However, during the past four decades, computer graphics has evolved into an innovative multifaceted […]