Root systems

Root systems responding to their own uptake of water or nutrients: the parameter for rate of uptake was set high for the first simulation (upper image) and low for the second (lower image), all other parameters being held constant. The translucent surface connects points in the soil which have the same water status.

Images copyright 1996 by R. Mech and P. Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary.

Techniques published in Radomir Mech and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Visual Models of Plants Interacting with Their Environment. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 96 (New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-9, 1996). In Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, 1996, ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 397-410.

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Last updated: Jim Hanan, 3 October 1998