Growing canopies

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Canopy & host

Construction Surface treatment Shared canopy normals Canopy shadow depth Brush scale Host / motion Shape seed Crown extent Foliage density Lower offshoots Solid backing Spatial spread Branch pose

Wind Colour Shaped patch normals Show canopyShow expression sigilsWireframe

Light spill experiment

Local lightLight strength

Actual point lights on 3D ground and rocks. This tests illumination, not the new shadow-canopy effect.

Concept & method

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Compare Painterly volume with Previous rendering on the same host. Decorative twigs follow terminal members. The expression examples use 018's real rewrite layouts; this is a material study, not the playable encounter.

Research, render comparisons & earlier studies