Controls:

You can use the mouse to select plants and control the sliders.

Use the arrow keys or the FPS keys (WASD) to move from plant to plant. I would recommend the FPS keys for rapid adjustments.

Description

This applet takes the format of Prof. Perlin's Plant1 applet and adds modification abilities. This is meant to simply be a prototype for the interface, and not the functionality. Ideally, this applet would be animated, and rather than having sliders for attributes, they would be sliders higher level properties, such as shyness. The idea is that, after tweaking, this applet could be used for efficient on-the-fly configuration of the garden. Source.

Notes

I can visualize incremental improvements to this interface, some which hopefully have already been done by other students:

1. Add the ability to select multiple flowers at once, such as a whole group of 3, or a whole row (representing a mound).
2. Improve the display of the flowers. I created a Flora widget currently uses Prof. Perlin's display technique. The main disadvantage to this is that it is very hard to see the plant colors.
3. Implement a set of high level attributes.
4. Implement actual animating behavior for those attributes.