Epilogue

This quiet place, reminiscient of Claude Monet’s 1899 painting Waterlilies pool — Harmony in green, does not really exist. The scene was modeled using L-systems that captured the development of trees and water plants, and illuminated by simulated sunlight. It is difficult not to appreciate how far the theory of L-systems and the entire field of computer graphics have developed since their beginnings in the 1960’s, making such images possible. Yet the results contained in this book are not conclusive and constitute only an introduction to the research on plant modeling for biological and graphics purposes. The algorithmic beauty of plants is open to further exploration.