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If you push your avatar against the bark and clip the camera through the geometry, you find nothing inside. There is no rings of history, no sap, no ants crawling in the deep wood. It is a thin, two-dimensional skin stretched over empty space. A facade of oxygen and carbon, rendered in polygons.

Don't just sway in the wind. Grow the rings. speedtrees

: Users define structural rules such as branch length, frequency, and orientation. The software then generates a unique model that follows these botanical "blueprints". If you push your avatar against the bark

To be a SpeedTree is to be efficient. It is safe. It protects you from the messy, unoptimized reality of having deep roots and scars. It saves on the processing power required to feel everything deeply. But the cost of that optimization is solitude. You can populate an entire landscape with hollow trees, but you will never hear the wind actually moving through them; you only hear the sound file playing on loop. A facade of oxygen and carbon, rendered in polygons