The video below shows the tree’s developmental and immediate response to wind. This model captures the physics response of the tree shape to the long and short-term influence of wind.
The developmental model can show climbing plants (Honorable mention from the Best Papers Committee Eurographics 2017), and there was also a paper in 2002 on the same topic.
The tree environmental response of the tree can be estimated from its geometry. The response can then be used to simulate the tree response to a different environment interactively, an approach we called plastic trees. The reconstructed model is environmentally sensitive and responds to light or obstacles, as shown in this video.