Plants are continuously communicating with an ever-changing environments where macro and micro-effects interact, having an effect on morphogenesis, making all leaves, all tree rings and all flowers a bit different from one another. This is why we explicitly opt for a geometrical model: our purpose is not to build nice visuals, our goals is to develop abstract plants. The parameters in the abstract plant enable us to measure the effect of interactions with the environment, which has to take into account natural curvature conditions [94]. Making nice and appealing virtual plants cannot be the goal of our endeavor. Indeed, introducing parameters and choosing values of them with the aim of obtaining a virtual plant resembling a given specimen contradicts our aim of using the "abstract" plant in the study of the morphogenesis as a time sequence of adaptations to internal and external stresses acting on the plants. The model constructed should be generic, i.e.; free of in-built constraints depending on results or theories contained in those to be tested in the actual research.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-151-2_10
Publish Year: 2017
