Stone is widespread in its use as a building material and artistic medium. One of its most
remarkable qualities is that it changes appearance as it interacts with the environment …

Reconstructing and rendering trees is a challenging problem due to the geometric
complexity involved, and the inherent difficulties of capture. In this paper we propose a …

In the past few years, significant advances in computer graphics have created exciting new
options for visualizing our environment in three or four dimensions (with animation over time …

We present techniques for realistic real-time rendering of complex landscapes that consist of
many highly detailed plant models. The plants are approximated by dynamically changing …

This paper presents a framework for the real-time rendering of plant leaves with global
illumination effects. Realistic rendering of leaves requires a sophisticated appearance …

Realistic real‐time rendering and lighting of forests is an important aspect for simulators and
video games. This is a difficult problem, due to the massive amount of geometry: aerial forest …

Abstract Models of large forest scenes are of a geometric complexity that surpasses even the
capabilities of current high end graphics hardware. We propose an extreme simplification …

Simulation of forest environments has applications from entertainment and art creation to
commercial and scientific modelling. Due to the unique features and lighting in forests, a …

As the representation of the vegetation, trees will be an indispensable part of natural scenes.
Many studies have focused on the topic about how to simulate realistic trees efficiently. The …

Rendering of natural scenes has interested the scientific community for a long time due to its
numerous applications. The targeted goal is to create images that are similar to what a …