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Following the Dynamics of Structural Variants in Experimentally Evolved Populations
Published on: February 3, 2023
Evolutionary plantographics
Alon Gal1, Gady Mahal, Moshe Sipper
1Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. gal_alon@cs.bgu.ac.il
Abstract:
This letter describes an evolutionary system for creating lifelike three-dimensional plants and flowers, our main goal being the facilitation of producing realistic plant imagery. With these two goals in mind--ease of generation and realism--we designed the plant genotype and the genotype-to-phenotype mapping. Diversity in our system comes about through two distinct processes--evolution and randomization--allowing the creation not only of single plants but of entire gardens and forests. Thus, we are able to readily produce natural-looking artificial scenes.
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