Procedural Modelling of Plant Scenes

This paper describes a procedural model for the creation of complex plant scenes such as forests and jungles. The aim is to use the wide-spread technique of L-Systems to model the plants as this will mean that any aspect of the plant growth can be rendered without intensive modelling work on the part of the animator. This project aims to model realistic complex organic environments by modelling not only the inhabitants of these environments but also the interactions between same. These interactions are modelled using a domination algorithm which stunts the growth of plants which are encroaching on the space of others. This same algorithm allows for the dynamic addition and removal of individuals to and from the population. Previous work in the fields of plant modelling in general, L-Systems in particular and procedural modelling is looked at in Section 2. The specific approaches chosen, as well as reasons for these choices, are explained in Section 3. Section 4 looks at results that have been achieved thus far, and Section 5 looks at possible extensions to the final project.