“Foliager: Procedural Forest Generation From Natural Language Using Scientific Data and AI” by Todd and Bailey – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Foliager: Procedural Forest Generation From Natural Language Using Scientific Data and AI” by Todd and Bailey

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    Foliager: Procedural Forest Generation From Natural Language Using Scientific Data and AI

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    Art & Design

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    Foliager is a generative AI-powered pipeline that transforms natural language into biologically plausible 3D forest ecosystems, combining ecological simulation with procedural graphics to support scientific visualization, storytelling, and environmental design.

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    [1] Blender Foundation. 2024. Blender 4.2 – Free and Open 3D Creation Software. https://www.blender.org/. Accessed: 2025-06-17.
    [2] J. J. Landsberg and R. H. Waring. 1997. A generalised model of forest productivity using simplified concepts of radiation-use efficiency, carbon balance and partitioning. Forest Ecology and Management 95, 3 (1997), 209–228.
    [3] OpenAI. 2024. ChatGPT (April 2024 version). https://chat.openai.com. Accessed: 2025-06-17.


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