An efficient estimation of light in simulation of plant development

During a simulation of plant development evaluation of the amount of light plays a significant role. Most of the previous works take into account only constant amount and constant direction of the light in the scene without respect to local shadows in the tree. In the other works this evaluation strongly depends on the number of objects in the scene.

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