Simulation levels of detail for plant motion Conference Paper

abstract

• The Eurographics Association 2004. In this paper we describe a method for simulating motion of realistically complex plants interactively. We use a precomputation stage to generate the plant structure, along with a set of simulation levels of detail. The levels of detail are made by continuously grouping branches starting from the tips of the branches and working toward the trunk. Grouped branches are simulated as single branches that have similar simulation characteristics to the original branches. During run-time, we traverse the plant and determine the allowable error in the simulation of branch motion. This allows us to choose the appropriate simulation level of detail and we provide smooth transitions from level to level. Our level of detail approach affects only the simulation parameters, allowing geometry to be handled independently. Using this method we can significantly improve simulation times for complex trees.

name of conference

• Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation - SCA '04

authors

• Keyser, John

published proceedings

• Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation - SCA '04

author list (cited authors)

• Beaudoin, J., & Keyser, J.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• Beaudoin, J||Keyser, J

publication date

• January 2004

publisher

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)  Publisher

published in

• Computer Animation 2004 - ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1145/1028523.1028563

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 3905673142

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 9783905673142

start page

• 297

end page

• 304

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1028523.1028563