In order to perform virtual environmental simulations on impact of trees at a city-scale, we attempted to represent - physically and botanically - trees of various species with specific structures, sizes, and characteristics as distinct 3D biomechanical models that can grow over time (Gobeawan et al. 2019). The work was a part of an initiative to model all city trees at various levels of detail for Virtual Singapore Gobeawan et al. 2018) with a field measurement work to obtain statistics (Lin et al. 2018) and a data structure proposal (Lin et al. 2019). Subsequently, this paper presents our formulated growth rules (Figure 1) to model tree species procedurally in 3D using L-system.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the research grant under Virtual Singapore
Programme (NRF2017VSG-AT3DCM001-029) from the National Research Foundation of Singapore.