The tree generation tool Arbaro is now ported to Java.
(So speed is ok now).

You will find the release 0.6 on the sourceforge server here:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/arbaro/

Beside porting to Java, some more features are added
and bugs fixed. Lobes and Mesh output are added since the
0.4 release. There are more tree definition files.

A dozen of rendered example trees you will find here:
  http://arbaro.sourceforge.net/

With interested people I would like to discuss some
specific problems, like:

- would it better for Povray memory usage to put leaves in 
  a big mesh instead of a union of discs
- a splitted trunk looks somewhat strange, should the
  trunk radius be smaller for clones or is this a problem
  with mesh creation
- would a more evenly splitting algorithm be preferable
...

    Wolfram.

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In povray.general Wolfram Diestel <wol### [at] stelojde> wrote:
> - would it better for Povray memory usage to put leaves in 
>   a big mesh instead of a union of discs

  A mesh should be definitely better.
  I don't know if it will make a big difference in memory usage/rendering
time if you have one single tree, but if you copy the same tree several
times in your scene it should definitely have a great impact in memory
usage.

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