← all demos
Forestry & Wildlife

Reineke Self-Thinning Line

N = 1000(D/25)^(−1.605)
Reineke Self-Thinning Line

As a crowded even-aged stand grows, competition kills the smaller trees along Reineke's −1.605 self-thinning line, trading falling stem count for rising average diameter.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).