What is PlantStudio?

PlantStudio Botanical Illustration Software is a tool for creating 3D plant models and 2D illustrations. PlantStudio simulates herbaceous (non-woody) plants like wildflowers and cut flowers, vegetables, weeds, grasses, and herbs using a parameter-driven simulation of plant growth and structure. You can “grow” plants over their life cycles, producing lifelike images at any age. You can design, animate and breed a wide variety of plants. By using the “evolutionary arts” of variation and selection in the plant breeder, you can quickly and easily create whole families of unique plants for your 3D scenes.

plants This just in… PlantStudio is now free! See our press release page for more information.

How can I find out more? Check out PlantStudio’s features and requirements; look at the PlantStudio Gallery and Plant Exchange Area; take a look at some PlantStudio screen shots; read the reviews and user comments; and download the evaluation version! A copy of the help system on-line explains how the simulation works and which plants it draws best. phlox Great! How do I get it? You can download a fully-functional evaluation copy of PlantStudio now!

violet What does it run on? PlantStudio requires Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me.

What’s in the future for PlantStudio? Feel free to weigh in on our PS3 wish list. And for a hint of PlantStudio’s past, here is a page about the history of PlantStudio.