Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), 2015

Woodification: User-Controlled Cambial
Growth Modeling

Julian Kratt1       Marc Spicker1       Alejandro Guayaquil2       Marek Fiser2
Sören Pirk3       Oliver Deussen1       John C. Hart4       Bedrich Benes2

1University of Konstanz, Germany
2Purdue University, USA
3ESRI R&D Center Zurich, Switzerland
4University of Illinois, USA





Abstract

We present a botanical simulation of secondary (cambial) tree growth coupled to a physical cracking simulation of its bark. Whereas level set growth would use a fixed resolution voxel grid, our system extends the deformable simplicial complex (DSC), supporting new biological growth functions robustly on any surface polygonal mesh with adaptive subdivision, collision detection and topological control. We extend the DSC with temporally coherent texturing, and surface cracking with a user-controllable biological model coupled to the stresses introduced by the cambial growth model.


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@article {10.1111:cgf.12566,
journal   = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title     = {{Woodification: User-Controlled Cambial Growth Modeling}},
author    = {Kratt, Julian and Spicker, Marc and Guayaquil, Alejandro and Fiser, Marek 
             and Pirk, S\"{o}ren and Deussen, Oliver and Hart, John C. and Benes, Bedrich},
year      = {2015},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
DOI       = {10.1111/cgf.12566}
}