September 17, 2004

L-System Code

Finally, school's back in session, and I continue to develop my thesis project.

This summer I stumbled on L-system implementation, and below is the source code for a little demo (made using processing). I've been exploring the animism inherent in such systems. This current experiment does not deal with recursion per se (one of the reasons people find L-systems cool), but instead deals with variying elements of the tree-like structure. For instace, I make the branches seek the mouse pointer, like a tree's branches would follow sunlight.

Once I figure out how to embed the java applet in the blog window, you'll be able to see more than just the (incredibly messy) java code...

Source Code


Posted by todd at September 17, 2004 1:08 PM

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very interesting.... i don't know what it is but it's looking great... does it always do the same thing? it seems to do so...

Posted by: susana at September 17, 2004 3:20 PM

hey, you should check the below link out -- I think there is source for this somewhere, but it seems like a pretty damn cool system for generating city-map like structures.

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/index.php

Posted by: will at September 17, 2004 9:29 PM

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