Procedural modeling of plant ecosystems maximizing vegetation cover

Abstract Vegetation plays a major role in the realistic display of outdoor scenes. However, manual plant placement can be tedious. For this reason paper presents new proposal field procedural modeling natural This method creates ecosystems that maximizes covered space by optimizing an objective function subject to series constraints defined system inequalities. includes environment taking into account characteristics terrain and species involved. Once inequality has been defined, solution will obtained tries maximize radius projected area trees therefore extension vegetation cover on ground. The technique eliminates do not achieve minimum growth radius, simulating typical competitive process nature. Results show good performance high visual quality proposed technique. use kind optimization techniques could used solve other problems fields application.