Digital Design of Nature
Subtitle: Computer Generated Plants and Organics (X.media.publishing)
Contributors: A. Dowden-Williams (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783540405917
Subjects: Image processing: graphics (static images); Information Technology; Computer Vision; Computer Graphics - Game Programming; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Computer graphics; Computer Graphics - General; Art; Computer Generated Plants; Computers / Computer Graphics / General; Virtual Reality; Plants; Computer Science; Computer simulation
First sentence: In botany, vegetation is viewed on different levels of abstraction.
Description: The reproduction of nature via computer has fascinated scientists in computer graphics and artists ever since synthetic imaging was thought possible. This book 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.The range of creating representational forms reaches from deceptively authentic looking pictures to abstract presentations. In addition, with similar methods organic objects can be produced, changed, and animated.