# User Guides

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:::{grid-item-card} Shapes and Sizes
:link: shapes
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/ellipsoids.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/rectangles.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/polygons.png" width="95"/>
^^^

Check out the different leaf shapes.
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:::{grid-item-card} Distributions
:link: distributions
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/circles.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/constant_size.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/uniform_size.png" width="95"/>
^^^

See which distributions you can use to sample feature values.
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:::{grid-item-card} Colors
:link: colors 
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/RGB.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/HSV.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/natural_color.png" width="95"/>
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Make your images more colorful by sampling from different color spaces.
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:::{grid-item-card} Textures
:link: textures
:link-type: doc 
:text-align: center 
<img src="../_static/figures/texture_patch.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/leafwise_texture.png" width="95"/>
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Add visual interest to each leaf by adding a texture.
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:::{grid-item-card} Partial sampling
:link: partial_sampling
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/sparse_sampling.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/position_mask.png" width="95"/>
^^^

Reduce the number of leaves or exclude leaf positions from sampling. 
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:::{grid-item-card} Dependencies
:link: dependencies
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/single_feature_dependency.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/dual_feature_dependency.png" width="95"/>
^^^

Learn how to introduce feature dependencies into your model.
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:::{grid-item-card} Leaf topology
:link: leaf_topology
:link-type: doc 
:text-align: center 
<img src="../_static/figures/circular_motion.gif" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/protoobject.gif" width="95"/>
^^^

Learn how to use the leaf topology class to edit leaf tables and generate compound or animated scenes.
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:::{grid-item-card} Gallery
:link: ../gallery/index
:link-type: doc 
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<img src="../_static/figures/leafy_image.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/annulus.png" width="95"/>
<img src="../_static/figures/spheres.png" width="95"/>
^^^

Check out the gallery for inspiration on how to combine these features to generate novel images.
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```{toctree}
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:maxdepth: 1

shapes
distributions
colors
textures
partial_sampling
dependencies
leaf_topology
```