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“Procedural field grasses” by Butler and Ebert

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    Technical

Title:

    Procedural field grasses

Session/Category Title:   Natural Causes


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    A method for generating large fields of grasses. The procedural techniques achieve substantial savings in storage space, modeling, and animation effort.

References:


    1. 1 Smith, Alvy, Ray. Plants, fractals, and formal languages. Computer Graphics. 18, 3 1-10.
    2. 2 Kajiya, James T., and Kay, Timothy L. Rendering fur with three dimensional textures. Computer Graphics, 23, 3 271-280.
    3. 3 Goldman, Dan B. Fake fur rendering. Computer Graphics, 31, 3 127-133.


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