Section: New Software and Platforms

PLANTRAD

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Biology

Functional Description: PlantRad is a software program for computing solutions to the equation of light equilibrium in a complex scene including vegetation. The technology used is hierarchical radiosity with clustering and instantiation. Thanks to the latter, PlantRad is capable of treating scenes with a very high geometric complexity (up to millions of polygons) such as plants or any kind of vegetation scene where a high degree of approximate self-similarity permits a significant gain in memory requirements.

• Participants: Cyril Soler, François Sillion and George Drettakis

• Contact: Cyril Soler