speedtreeTheawardpresentation:

On February 7, 2015, at aceremony in Beverly Hills, California,a Scientific and Technical Academy Award?was presented to the three principal developers of SpeedTree?: IDV co-founders Michael Sechrest and Chris King, and Senior Software Architect Greg Croft. In selecting SpeedTree for this honor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wrote:

"This software substantially improves an artist's ability to create specifically designed trees and vegetation by combining a procedural building process with the flexibility of intuitive, direct manipulation of every detail."

SpeedTree use has been confirmed in dozens of major films since the software was featured prominently in 2009'sAvatar, which received nine Oscar?nominations and three Oscars. Several other Oscar-winning and -nominated films have featured SpeedTree, includingThe Great GatsbyandThe Wolf of Wall Street, as well as blockbusters likeThe Avengers,X-Men: Days of Future Past,Iron Man 3, andMaleficent.

SpeedTree早期的一些樹庫里邊樹種如下表:

科羅拉多州藍色云杉(Picea Pungens Glauca)

道格拉斯冷杉(Pseudotsuga Menziesii)

蘇格蘭人松樹(Pinus Sylvestris)

美國人冬青樹(冬青樹Opaca)

Amur軟木塞(Phellodendron Amurense)

黑色齒齦(Nyssa Sylvatica)

Bradford Callery梨(Pyrus Calleryana)

共同的鉤刺(阿拉伯樹膠Caffra)

假胡子桃金娘(Lagerstoemia Indica)

英文的橡樹(Quercus櫟樹)

Ficus (Ficus Benjamina)

皂莢樹(Gleditsia Triacanthos)

槲樹(Quercus Virginiana)

桃子(Prunus Persica)

鵝卵石橡樹(Quercus Imbricaria)

Sourwood (Oxydendrum Arboreum)

南的木蘭(木蘭Grandiflora)

糖楓(高手Saccarum)

郁金香(Liriodendron Tulipifera)

垂柳(Salix Babylonica)

柳樹橡樹(Quercus Phellos)

椰子樹(椰子樹Nucifera)

卷曲的手掌(Howea belmoreana)

棕櫚(Sabal棕櫚)

美國人黃楊木(Buxus Sempervirens)

杜鵑花(北美杜鵑)

卡羅萊納州鼠李(Frangula Caroliniana)

額外的陸地

萬圣節(jié)前夕

仙人掌仙人掌(Carnegiea Gigantica)

SpeedTree5.2版由SpeedTree Modeler、SpeedTree Compiler和SpeedTree SDK三部分構(gòu)成。Modeler，顧名思義主要負責樹木的建模，Compiler主要是將材質(zhì)和貼圖打包為程序所用，SDK則主要結(jié)合程序繪制SpeedTree建模的樹木或者森林。

2011年speedtree更新到6，并根據(jù)所面對的不同用戶群體將軟件分為了三個版本，其中包括面向游戲產(chǎn)業(yè)的speedtree for games、面向電影業(yè)的SpeedTree Modeler Cinema和面向建筑工程行業(yè)的speedtree architectural。