Flower Modeling via X-ray Computed Tomography

The thing that caught my eye here is the interface: a specialized input for detailing the shape of a flower. It’s not directly procedural generation, in that it doesn’t create random flowers–but the interface helps you easily model something that would have taken painstaking hours otherwise.

An interface like this adds flexibility. Imagine using something similar for other shapes: objects that would be nearly impossible to design otherwise become trivial. You wouldn’t necessarily have the advantage of a CT scan to work from, but modeling by tracing curves on an expanding spherical surface opens its on possibilities.

The data is interesting too, in case you wanted to model flowers. (And I know you do.) The CT scan shows the internal structure, so there’s more information here than you’d be able to get from holding an actual flower.

http://www.riken.jp/brict/Ijiri/flowerctlib/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD_cSRJ7Gho