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Re: Lindenmayer Systems

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Post by swayvil »

I was really into this a few years back. This particular variety was somewhat famous for a while.

http://www.fleen.org/generative_art_project/aza.png

Shape grammar building system stuff.

IMO it's the coolest thing to happen to 2D geometry since the Cartesian grid.

Here's more

https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1662465007500574723

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Post by dang »

Related. Others?

Evolving Lindenmayer Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20588039 - Aug 2019 (15 comments)

Lindenmayer systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002532 - Dec 2017 (9 comments)

Four L-system fractals in LaTeX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9716780 - June 2015 (5 comments)

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Post by NelsonMinar »

peterldowns wrote: post #13

If you're interested in L-systems you may also enjoy reading about Shape Grammars. Sort of an evolutionary dead-end in terms of system design, but intriguing. As far as I can tell they were basically superceded by other types of programmatic or parametric design systems. Some references: - http://web.mit.edu/~haldane/www/icerays/ - https://vincentmai.com/Shape-Grammar - https://wiki.ece.cmu.edu/ddl/index.php/Shape_gr…

This is a fantastic collection of links and makes me wish there were one modern site that summarized all this work, maybe with a working Javascript demo.

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Post by peter_l_downs »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #24
peterldowns wrote: post #13

If you're interested in L-systems you may also enjoy reading about Shape Grammars. Sort of an evolutionary dead-end in terms of system design, but intriguing. As far as I can tell they were basically superceded by other types of programmatic or parametric design systems. Some references: - http://web.mit.edu/~haldane/www/icerays/ - https://vincentmai.com/Shape-Grammar - https://wiki.ece.cmu.edu/ddl/index.php/Shape_gr…

This is a fantastic collection of links and makes me wish there were one modern site that summarized all this work, maybe with a working Javascript demo.

That's on the long list of blog posts that I've never written. Feel free to start with these and go forward! Make sure to get a physical copy of Shape, it's one of the most baffling textbooks I've ever tried to read.

Re: Lindenmayer Systems

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Post by beaugunderson »

benvan wrote: post #15

Ooh this is one of my favourite topics :). I had a side project a while back which has a few fun presets . You can click-and-drag to animate the pattern by changing its branching angle: http://benvan.co.uk/lsys/#?i=30&r=L%20%3A%20S%0AS%20%3A%20F%...

the ability to change the angle on yours by dragging is so cool!
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