The software provides a component framework and visual programming environment. It enables the creation of applications by connecting visual components using a drag and drop interface. This allows for quicker development and easier maintenance of applications.
The OpenAlea project includes various components such as Core, Visualea, Stdlib, Deploy, DeployGui, SConsX, Misc, Scheduler, Container, and MTG. Some of the key features of this software include a round-robin scheduler, graph datastructures and algorithms, multiscale tree graph data-structure and algorithms, and a procedural tree modeling using the WP algorithm.
VPlants project includes various analysis, modeling, and simulation components such as Aml for plant architecture modeling and analysis, PlantGL for 3D plant geometric library, StatTool for standard statistic library, SequenceAnalysis for sequence statistical models such as Markov and Hidden Semi-Markov, TreeMatching for branching structures comparison, TreeStatistic for tree statistical models, and L-Py for LSystems in Python.
Alinea project includes components such as Caribu for Illumination of 3D virtual canopies based on radiosity, Adel for simulation of gramineous crops such as wheat and maize, and TopVine for the reconstruction of grapevine canopy structure.
Overall, OpenAlea is a comprehensive software tool with various components and features that can help the plant research community with their modeling and simulation needs.
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