| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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X.media.publishing |
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X.media.publishing.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Preface -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- 1 Computer-Generated Plants: Introduction -- 1.1 Modeling of Virtual Landscapes -- 1.2 Rendering Issues -- 1.3 Applications -- 2 Plants: Botanical Description -- 2.1 The Shoot Axis -- 2.2 Budding -- 2.3 Branching Types -- 2.4 Spatial Division -- 2.5 Tropisms -- 2.6 Architectural Analysis of Trees -- 2.7 Leaves -- 2.8 Geobotanical Description Methods -- 2.9 Description Methods for Vegetation -- 3 Some Mathematics: Plants as Mathematical Objects -- 3.1 Geometrical and Topological Models -- 3.2 Branching Structures -- 3.3 Trees as Fractal Objects -- 3.4 Phyllotaxis -- 3.5 Description of Plant Populations -- 3.6 Developmental Models -- 4 Procedural Modeling: Programming of Plants -- 4.1 Cellular Automata -- 4.2 A First Continuous Model -- 4.3 Three-Dimensional Procedural Models -- 4.4 Regulation of the Branching Process -- 4.5 Generation Using Particle Systems -- 4.6 A Fractal Tree Model -- 4.7 Geometric Modeling -- 4.8 An Approach Based on Budding -- 4.9 A Combinatorial Approach -- 4.10 Tree Modeling Using Strands -- 4.11 Approximate Modeling -- 4.12 Growth in Voxels -- 4.13 Modeling of Phyllotaxis -- 4.14 Remaining Questions -- 5 Rule-Based Modeling: Single Plants Are "Emerging" -- 5.1 Rewriting Systems -- 5.2 Lindenmayer Systems -- 5.3 Branching Structures -- 5.4 Three-Dimensional Commands -- 5.5 Stochastic and Parameterized Systems -- 5.6 Context-Sensitive Systems -- 5.7 Modeling of Phyllotaxis -- 5.8 Animation of L-Systems -- 5.9 Interactions of Plants and the Environment -- 5.10 Use of Position Information -- 5.11 Iterated Function Systems -- 5.12 Object Instancing -- 5.13 CSG-Based Modeling -- 5.14 Categorizing the Methods -- 6 Rule-Based Object Production: Interactive Modeling -- 6.1 Algorithmic Multiplication -- 6.2 Component Types -- 6.3 Combination of Components -- 6.4 Examples -- 6.5 Shape Modeling -- 6.6 Animation -- 6.7 Resume -- 7 Modeling Terrain: The Basis -- 7.1 Brownian Motion -- 7.2 From Functions to Terrain -- 7.3 Erosion -- 7.4 Interaction with Fractal Terrain -- 8 Modeling Vegetation: A Landscape Evolves -- 8.1 Direct Specification of Distributions -- 8.2 Simulation of a Plant Population -- 8.3 Simulation of a Plant Association -- 8.4 Reduction of the Geometric Data -- 8.5 Instancing of Plant Populations -- 8.6 Modeling of a Sample Scene -- 9 Rendering: Creating "Virtual Reality" -- 9.1 Local Lighting Models -- 9.2 The Rendering Equation -- 9.3 Radiosity -- 9.4 Raytracing -- 9.5 Further Rendering Methods -- 9.6 Photorealistic Renditions of Leaves -- 9.7 Rendering Complex Scenes -- 9.8 Plant Images Using Raytracing -- 9.9 Plant Images Using Radiosity -- 9.10 When Do Computer Images Appear Real? -- 10 Level-of-Detail: Fast Rendering of Images -- 10.1 LOD Methods for Smooth Surfaces -- 10.2 Static LOD Methods for Trees -- 10.3 Dynamic Point-Based Representation -- 10.4 Dynamic Polygonal Representation -- 10.5 Point- and Line-Based Renderi |
| Summary |
Illustrates and exemplifies methods for the creation of artificial plant models, and the application of these methods within areas such as simulation, virtual reality, botany, landscaping, and architecture. The models are combined to create gardens, parks, and even entire landscapes |
| Notes |
Rev. translation of: Computergenerierte Pflanzen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computer graphics
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Plants -- Computer simulation
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Digital computer simulation.
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Computer simulation.
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Plants.
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Botany.
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Computer Simulation
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Plants
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Computer Graphics
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computer graphics.
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simulation.
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vegetation.
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COMPUTERS -- Image Processing.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Techniques -- Digital.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Graphics Applications.
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Plants -- Computer simulation.
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Computer graphics.
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Informatique.
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Plants
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Digital computer simulation
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Computer simulation
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Botany
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Computer graphics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lintermann, Bernd
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| LC no. |
2004116589 |
| ISBN |
3540405917 |
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9783540405917 |
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354027104X |
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9783540271048 |
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9786610305209 |
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661030520X |
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