VPN - Client-server object-oriented virtual plant modeling tool

Author

Vitali, G. ; Magnanini, E. ; Mennucci, N. ; Denti, E.

Author_Institution

DiSTA, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 31 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

412

Abstract

Functional Structural Plant Modeling (FSPM) studies the interaction between plant and environment including architectural and morphological features. VPN (Virtual Plant on the Net) has been developed to analyze the benefits of having a plant simulation model (Virtual Plant Engine,VPE) apart from a graphic client (Virtual Plant Interface,VPI). VPI use Java3D to render the plant in a virtual scene where the skeleton of simulated plants is enriched of VRML-2 features. VPI also allows the user to interact actively with the plant cutting elements and see it re-grown from VPE. Both VPI and VPE have an OO approach to represent and model a wide range of plant.

Keywords

Java; botany; client-server systems; object-oriented programming; rendering (computer graphics); virtual reality; FSPM; Java3D; VPE; VPI; VPN; client-server object-oriented virtual plant modeling tool; environment; functional structural plant modeling; graphic client; rendering; virtual plant engine; virtual plant interface; virtual plant on the net; FSPM; Object-Oriented; Virtual Plants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications (PMA), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0067-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMA.2012.6524865

Filename

6524865