Construction of plant stereo visualization simulation system prototype-StereoPlants

With the development research of virtual plant visualization, simulation of plant communities and the complex plant tissues or microstructure has become a trend. Currently the display of visualization for plant simulation is just a two-dimensional display of rendering image. It is not visualized for cognizing the results of large plant communities or complex microstructure. Therefore, this paper proposed and implemented a system prototype to display plant simulation which accomplishes plant visualization stereo three-dimensional content from generating to stereo presentation. The software of this system is based on cross-platform FLTK graphical user interface library and OpenGL graphics library to complete plant simulation stereo visualization architecture, and supports to implant existing visualization simulation model based on OpenGL. The hardware system composes of computer and passive stereo projection system. In order to test the feasibility of this system, the existing visualization simulation of plant root was implanted into visualization framework. The integrated test results showed that this system prototype of stereo display plant simulation can vividly and immersed stereo display root visualization simulation. The prototype system makes the visualization of plant communities and the complex plant tissues or microstructure more intuitively and easily to be cognized.