| Tool | Description | Pros | Cons | Pics |
| Virtual Plants / Floradig at the department of Computational Science for Plants, Animals and their Interaction (Australia) | Software for digitizing the growth of real plants. Used for Australian agriculture: cotton, bean, Stylosanthes, Parthenium, sorghum, young red cedar. |
 
 |
||
| AMAP (1990s) | French software package split into several packages: Genesis, Orchestra, Nurseries, Softimage/Maya plug-ins. | Large plant database, includes scientific
and botanical knowledge. Includes a growth engine. Provides terrain creation with area delineation based on GIS data. |
It's unclear whether and how you can create
your own species. No longer sold, the technology was transferred to Bionatics |
 
|
| Tree Designer | An old plant modeler that outputs to 3DS and POV-Ray. | Shareware for Win32, uses OpenGL. | all the examples look like the same tree |
|
| 4Dvision - "Nursery" | Leaves look small and more realistic, trunks thinner | Only very simplistic models available, pretty
much stuck with the samples you get. Only a 3DSR4 version was ever available, appears to be dead and gone |
|
|
| Lace (no longer online?) |
Package of Java classes for L-system modeling extended to handle particle systems and quilt designs. | Looks very nice. Models natural plant growth. Source code available |
L-system language used is not abstract enough. (includes explicit function calls within the rules). |
 |
| LParser | One of the first public domain L-system packages. | Runs under MS-DOS. Provides source code. Output for POV-Ray and Rayshade. | Very primitive and VERY slow. |
|
