Terrain and Vegetation
For the final project in CS 580 AI in Games, our team created natural-looking terrain using Perlin noise. My contribution focused on the AI scripts responsible for placing different species of trees across that terrain.
Procedural Tree Distribution
Data-informed vegetation placement across procedurally generated terrain.
Using Real Distribution Data
Tree placement used normal distributions based on real tree-plot data from the Sierra Nevada in California. This produced species groupings and density patterns that looked more natural than uniform or purely random scattering.