Growing Trees

12 comments

• efromvt 39 minutes ago
  This is super cool! Been looking into procedural tree generation for a project and that paper is a great starting point.
• yxhuvud 1 hour ago
  The generated trees look absolutely amazing. Adjusting the process for different lighting situations seems straightforward too - freestanding trees look different from those in woods.
• perfsakuya 1 hour ago
  The algorithm is cool and the article is pleasing to read.
• abrookewood 3 hours ago
  Pretty cool idea: "buds compete for light, the tree distributes a growth resource among them, and the successful ones produce new shoots. Those shoots change the light available for the next round. The crown shape emerges from this feedback loop."

  I would never have thought to generate tree shapes by simulating real life
• swazzy 3 hours ago
  oh hey, very nice result! i've been experimenting with trees (using ai) as well - https://treesim.netlify.app/
• camidagreat1 37 minutes ago
  This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
• levicanskij 3 hours ago
  Procedural generation always looks magical until you realize it's just a bunch of simple rules fighting for resources.
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  • fenykep 1 hour ago
    That makes it even more magical to me.
• cvanelteren 2 hours ago
  Oh hell yeah, a topic like this was on my bucket list for a while.
• eluded-xyz 2 hours ago
  Show me a smoothly animated demo of growth from a bud! It would look incredible
• busssard 1 hour ago
  now i am wondering if that would correctly imitate crown shyness etc. When several trees grow close to each other
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  • swiftcoder 1 hour ago
    It can, but doing that for a whole forest would require a lot of voxels!
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    • yxhuvud 57 minutes ago
      Yes, especially as not all trees are the same age, and the older trees were grown defined by even older trees that are now gone.
• swiftcoder 4 hours ago
  Very nice overview of procedural tree generation!
• pixelpoet 4 hours ago
  Nice to see another article from Mr Arion Render, always a pleasure. And of course posted by ibobev, always worth watching his HN submissions.