Applications#
How does a crop share light with its neighbours? What changes beneath solar panels? How can a measured plant architecture help explain whole-canopy gas exchange? These applications use explicit 3D scenes to connect plant structure with its light environment.
Explore five workflows, from wheat–maize mixtures to measured voxel canopies. Each page describes the scientific question, the scene, and the role of ArchimedLight.
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Wheat–maize intercroppingOriane BraudExplore light sharing between species, rows, and organs.
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AgrivoltaicsCorentin CoutellierResolve moving panel shadows and crop responses to heterogeneous light.
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Reconstructed riceRaphaël PérezLink measured architecture, intermittent shade, and canopy carbon assimilation.
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Oil-palm digital twinsJPCE · CIRAD–PT SMARTFollow measured palm architecture through time at leaflet scale.
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Belinga natural forestOlivier Martin · Pol Kennel · CIRAD–AMAPFollow light through a measured forest canopy in Cameroon.
A shared workflow#
Each application starts with a scene that represents the structures relevant to the question: crop rows, individual leaves, solar panels, or a reconstructed palm. ArchimedLight computes light interception, absorption, and scattering within that scene. Its outputs can be analysed directly or passed to physiological models through PlantSimEngine.
For a runnable introduction, start with your first simulation. The interactive workflow explains how to build a scene in Julia, and the file-based workflow covers existing scene files.
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