Digitizing Plants

摘要

Snapshots from a handheld camera can provide data to build computer models of plants ranging from bushes to trees. Plants are ubiquitous in our everyday life and there is demand for them in digital worlds too. But putting plants into virtual environments - into games, architectural simulations or scientific visualizations, for example - is a challenge because of the inherent difficulties of modeling plant-life. Three-dimensional modeling is not a trivial task even for the simplest of shapes. Objects or scenes are typically represented by a triangular mesh overlaid with an image called a texture map.