3D Roots Seeking Water

"[This animation] shows a three-dimensional extension of the [2D model], based on the work of Clausnitzer and Hopmans [Cla1994]. Water concentration is visualized by a semi-transparent iso-surface surrounding the roots. As a result of competition for water, the main roots grow away from each other. If the rootlets grow more slowly, the area of influence of each root system is smaller, and the main roots grow closer to each other."

excerpted from "Visual models of morphogenesis: A guided tour" by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel, and Radomir Mech, University of Calgary, 1997.

Last updated: Jim Hanan, 23 December 1998.