[fe] Something like SpeedTree?

[Juhana Sadeharju]

Hello. How interested people would be in an open source
tree software similar to SpeedTree?

Already there are some attempts to do so: greenhouse project,
ngplant, opentreelib, arbaro, treal, and meshtree.
Most of these are based on Weber's Siggraph 1995 paper.
Also no realtime rendering is addressed that much despite wishes.

Ogre engine users have rendered trees in realtime but probably
they don't have anything close to SpeedTree. Now Ogre users
have possibility to license SpeedTree via OgreSpeedTree.

SpeedTree license is unsuitable. I have asked SpeedTree people
if they could release a cheap personal edition of their software:
binary library, for personal use only, no redistribution rights,
priced $50. The idea is that if people want run my application,
they have to purchase the personal edition as well (compare to game
modding). No, they could not release such edition.

How Free Electron code should be modified for bringing it any
closer to SpeedTree 5?

Juhana