Approach for 3D Reconstructing Bonsai Plant

Bonsai has strong ornamental characteristics, and interactive simulation of bonsai is becoming a hot topic in computer graphics modeling of plants. This paper proposes an interactive simulation method which is based on Kinect Fusion point cloud information. We get point cloud information by the Kinect, and through Laplace method to extract the skeleton of bonsai and interoperate with skeleton. Then we reconstruct the 3D structure of the plant according to the skeleton, which can also solve the block problem to some extent, and finally render the perfect model of the plant. Based on this, the user can also edit the generated models according to their wishes, and create specific forms and particular layout of bonsai models. In this paper, we use this relatively novel method of bonsai modeling to make effective interactive simulation to a variety of bonsai plants. The experimental results show that this method can effectively simulate many kinds of bonsai model with specific form and particular layout, which has a high application value.