3D Visualization of Plants Concept for Digital Landscape Architecture Workshop, June 2013 during DLA Conference 2013

摘要

Objectives of Workshop: The workshop on 3D Plants is focusing on concepts, workflows, tips & tricks and, last but not least, on hands-on demonstrations by the creators of Laubwerk Plants Kits. Jan Walter will demo how he combines procedural plant modeling techniques with handcrafted details. Jan Walter Schliep and Philip Paar will present some of their next generation of 3D plant modeling and editing tools. Furthermore, we want to discuss with the participants about limits and requirements of representing vegetation in 3D visualizations. Are there any specific needs or "mental state" of landscape architects regarding 3D plants, which would demand specific approaches and "looks", e.g. other than in CG architectural visualization? Target group of workshop: Landscape Architects, students, researchers and practitioners interested in 3D modeling and visualization of gardens, landscapes, and architecture. Background of workshop: Literally everybody dealing with the computer graphical representation of outdoor scenes - pen and ink style or photo-realistic - visualization or computer games, has to deal with the fact that Mother Nature, especially the flora is very complex. And while users are facing this for decades now, dealing with virtual foliage in 3D applications is still complicated, time-consuming, often painfully slow and usually the final plants still don't look computer generated. Especially in digital landscape architecture practice, photomontage still seems to be the first choice when it comes to the representation of vegetation. Professional CG artists have been forced to chose between static plants that lack versatility, or overly-complicated modeling tools with hundreds of parameters that drastically slow down the creative process.