Quickstart: 3D Plot

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• Audience: Beginner

• Prerequisites: using PlantGeom, CairoMakie

• Time: 3 minutes

• Output: Full-plant 3D visualizations from existing files

If you want to make a 3D plot quickly, start here and copy-paste the examples. You can customize colors, legends, and interactivity later in the full 3D Plotting with Makie.jl guide.

Plot Existing Plants Fast

A simple plant read from an OPF file and visualized with plantviz. The plant has explicit geometry in the file, so we can visualize it immediately without any additional steps. It is made of two internodes, each with one leaf:

using PlantGeom
using CairoMakie

files_dir = joinpath(dirname(dirname(pathof(PlantGeom))), "test", "files")
simple_opf = read_opf(joinpath(files_dir, "simple_plant.opf"))
plantviz(simple_opf, figure=(size=(980, 680),))

A more complex plant, also read from an OPF file. This plant is a coffee plant that was measured in the field and reconstructed:

coffee_opf = read_opf(joinpath(files_dir, "coffee.opf"))
plantviz(coffee_opf, figure=(size=(980, 720),))

A tree generated with the growth API from PlantGeom:

tree_demo = build_demo_tree_with_growth_api()
plantviz(tree_demo, figure=(size=(980, 920),))

And an even more complex plant: a palm generated with the VPalm module from XPalm.jl, managed with PlantGeom geometry, and rendered with RayMakie by Simon Danisch:

What You Just Used

• read_opf gives you topology + geometry from existing plant files.

• build_demo_tree_with_growth_api() shows a generated plant using explicit growth + rebuild steps.

• plantviz materializes and renders current node geometries in one call.