How It Works

This simulation features five different branching coral styles grown recursively. The five styles are:

• RANDOM_SPREAD: Branches diverge with random angles and a slight upward bias.
• SPIRAL: Branches rotate in a spiral pattern.
• SINE_BENT: Branches bend based on sine functions.
• DOUBLE_HELIX: Branch pairs twist around each other.
• WIND_SWAY: Branches sway gently side-to-side.

In this revision, branch lengths are reduced and branch thickness is increased so that the coral appears more robust and compact. Fifteen coral clusters are randomly placed on a procedural ocean floor.

About This Simulation

Inspired by the diversity of natural coral forms, this project explores how modifying growth equations, color formulas, and geometric parameters can produce a rich variety of procedural branching structures. Adjustments to branch length, thickness, and curvature yield corals that look bushier and more realistic.