Hothouse 3D Acknowledgements

The heart of Hothouse is an implementation of the algorithms described in the following papers:

Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees, by Jason Weber and Joseph Penn
Efficient Bounded Adaptive Tessellation of Displacement Maps, by Kevin Moule and Michael D. McCool

Hothouse 3D is built with the following open source software:

The java based Eclipse Rich Client Platform provides the user interface and other application services.
The geometry engine is architected around a template based dependency graph which was built using Boost C++ Libraries.
Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator allows the C++ geometry engine to be seamlessly integrated with the Java user interface.
Spece descriptions are stored in the Firebird SQL embedded relational database.
FreeImage reads and manipulates images in many formats.
The OpenGL 3D graphics layer comes courtesy of G3D.
Installation is with the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.

Not to forget:

The rendered plant image on the home page was the result of Blender in the hands of a novice.
This little website was componentised and plumbed using Tapestry.