Tim Nikias wrote:
> For my next short movie, I'm thinking about creating a balcony, on which
> plants have been growing unattended for quite some time. What I'd like to do
> for this, is to script a simulation tool which might allow me to simply
> place a few plants of ivy, and let the script do the rest.
> 
> So, in effect, what I need are means to find places where it can grow,
> accumulate data to know where it should still be growing to, and some means
> to keep it from spreading too far.

There is a paper here, called "Virtual Climbing Plants Competing for 
Space" that might interest you :
http://paginas.ccm.itesm.mx/~beda/

Now, I don't know whether the technique will be easy to translate in 
POV... At least, the figures look good ;-)

HTH

-- 
Vincent

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