   A plant growth algorithm
  Hi all!,For a long time I have had in my mind this vision of creating a game involving plant growth and user interaction. Today I was doing some researching on plant growth algs and I found this very cool flash animation:http://www.snepo.com/experiments/Growth.htmlso my question is: do you guys know the name of such algs? I'm more concerned about how fast the alg will be than its mathematical correctness.cheers!,Fabio   
  While I don't know much about it I once looked into the same thing and came up continually with "L-Systems" in my searches, look them up kinda what you need... and...http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-algorithm:plant-generationEspecially check out the links, while most of them generate a full plant you could take what they do and expand it to make them grow in an animated fashion.Its not much but I hope that sorta helps.   ;  Well you could use fractals...(im pretty sure that means you'll have to write a recursive function to render)[media][/media]I'm pretty sure there is a tree fractal algorithim somewhere on the net. Just look it up. For the math part I think you might  have to use geometric  sequences to figure out how many branches you want draw..ect.   