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--- plant_rendering [2008-07-14 10:51] – davegriffiths
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 One of my lsystem attempts - a very stylistic approach (all right angles).
-trees are built out of cube primitives for an artificial life simulation, in isometric projection:
+Trees are built out of cube primitives for an artificial life simulation, in isometric projection:
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-The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) so I moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. with a bit of texturing it looked like this:
+The cubes approach was too slow (for my old graphics card in 2004) I was spawning hundreds of trees at a time - they were evolving using mutation errors of data encoded in seeds the trees dropped. I later moved to using camera facing geometry (sprites), textured with faked normals to make them shade according to the lighting to appear cylindrical. With a bit of texturing it looked like this:
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