The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990)

Re:The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) by gdubs on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:14AM (#25477494)

This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time. L-Systems have always fascinated me.

Last spring* quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini license. (There’s also a free learning edition with watermarks.) Houdini has a full featured L-System which is compatible with the systems described in this book.

You can even animate the parameters to create cool “growth” animations. Here’s a quick exploration I made recently:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CIgv8XKJkRx/?igshid=3ixzkhu2t...

(Apologies to non JS / non-Instagram users; only link I have at the moment.)

Correction: originally wrote “last year” when I mean to write “last spring”.

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Re:The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) by tsimionescu on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:17AM (#25477518)

> Last year during spring quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini license.

Completely off-topic, butyou made me curious - do you mean this year, or was there some quarantine event last year as well?

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Re:The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) by gdubs on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:21AM (#25477545)

Thanks for catching that. No, just an early morning typo before coffee has kicked in :) I meant to write “last spring” not “last year” - though I guess in about two weeks either would be correct.

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Re:The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (1990) by hrnnnnnn on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:45AM (#25484158)

For anyone not quite ready to splurge, but who wants to try 3D L-Systems, a combination of Blender and the Animation Nodes addon is a free and open source alternative.

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