[Algorithms] Foliage renderer?

[Juhana S. <ko...@ni...>]

Hello. Could anyone join Crystal Space or any other open source
engine project for writing a foliage renderer? We open source
developers already have a couple of tree designers (openlibtree
and arbaro), but no a foliage renderer for 10,000 trees.

I have collected 100+ papers on the topic and now we should go
through them and sketch our plan (if needed). Please, mail me
privately.

Strange, some of the tree rendering techniques like the billboard
clouds, the hierarchical billboards, sliced/parallel billboards,
view-dependent impostors, and point-rendered trees I had already
invented at around 1991.

Juhana
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