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For anyone interested to look more in-depth on the subject, there's an entire book dedicated to it called Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The math is really cool!
by antegamisou 4y ago
For anyone interested to look more in-depth on the subject, there's an entire book dedicated to it called Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The math is really cool!
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
- amelius 4y agoI wonder, though, if these techniques are about to be replaced by something like Stable Diffusion (a 3d version of it).
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoSure, but L-systems are neato for how simple they are.
- tarakat 4y agoML systems are more difficult to tweak. E.g. if you want to adjust parameters such as growth speed, branching factor, sunlight attraction, etc., and see how the resulting plant changes.
- AtomicOrbital 4y agoSure some NN tool can ape anything however that approach sheds zero intuition on understanding the hidden structure of what it's mimicking... current wave of NN masks asking the important questions like how does a cell grow ... I fear NN mania kicks the can down the road without revealing anything fundamental to understanding
- frozenport 4y agoIn general we know how cells grow, and even plants. Actual plants are controlled by variables that vary species to species, can't be easily measured, and are too numerous to count.
- slavik81 4y agoThere are a lot of unanswered questions related to how plants grow. If you look through the recent papers at Algorithmic Botany (linked at the start of the thread), you'll notice that they're partnering with other labs to do fundamental biological research (specifically, on the growth of veins in flowers and leaves). That's because they reached the limit of existing knowledge and needed to learn more to improve the computer models. That's where I did my master's, though I didn't meet Holly and Steve. I'm told they left for Weta shortly before I joined.
- affgrff2 4y agoGoogle published some work on reaction-diffusion systems implemented as a ML system. If you would put that on steroids, you could learn and simulate the growth of complex organisms I think.
- hollydale 4y agoYes that is a great resource and the lab that we came from actually!
- moralestapia 4y agoIIRC that's University of Calgary, right?