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A gift for the anti-Botanist

Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Alun Salt

With a world full of fascinating life-forms, it’s always easy to find a gift for a botanist. There’s so many plants to choose from, but what can you get for a friend without green fingers? What can you get for someone who doesn’t merely lack gardening skills, but is a hazard to plant-life. While browsing [...]

Towards aspect-oriented plant modelling

Towards aspect-oriented plant modelling

Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Alex

Standard modelling techniques are not suited for clearly separating aspects of plant function that criss-cross between different components of plant structure, which makes it difficult to reuse and share their implementations. Cieslak et al. use the L-system-based plant modelling language L+C to develop an aspect-oriented approach to plant modelling based on multi-modules, and illustrate the method [...]