Building Plant Models through a Visual Interface

Exhibitor: Simon Auf der Maur

Supervisor: Jim Hanan

Research Group: Complex and Intelligent Systems

Industry Sector: Scientific / Research Services

The modelling of plants is an interesting and significant research area, with many practical applications across a variety of fields. By using plant models to visualise and simulate plant growth, information can be obtained about a plant’s interaction with its environment, and how it grows under certain conditions, such as if the available light is varied or the plant is pruned. This information is very valuable to researchers, and the modelling of plants is creating new fields of research, as well as enhancing existing ones.

Plants are commonly modelled in a plant modelling language. Plant modelling languages are similar to general purpose programming languages in that the language is often complex and difficult to learn. This project aims to make the process of creating plant models easier by using a visual interface instead of by programming in a plant modelling language. The main focus of this project is the creation of an application to facilitate this.

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