The algorithmic beauty of plants

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1. deosjrJul 2023
   I tried for a bit and couldn't get it to work either. The dragon curve example is a lot more complicated than the simplest definition, which is a hint. I don't even know exactly what | or [ or ] are supposed to do here.

   Here's a version in Go instead: https://github.com/deosjr/GenGeo/blob/master/gen/lindenmayer... Which renders into: https://github.com/deosjr/GenGeo/blob/83c77f9433e569b30f71b3... (see Algorithmic Beauty of Plants for way more examples)

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2. trebeljahrOct 2022
   The Computational Beauty of Nature is such a cool book!

   There is also ABOP - the Algorithmic Beauty of Plants http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop which has been a huge inspiration for this project.

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3. antegamisouSep 2022
   For anyone interested to look more in-depth on the subject, there's an entire book dedicated to it called Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The math is really cool!

   http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

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4. noodlesUKJun 2022
   The blog mentions it at the very end but the linked text “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” is a great read. L-systems, the technique used to generate these trees are a surprisingly easy way of generating various fractal-like patterns, and are a very fun thing to play with. It’s not that often that a relatively dense bit of CS can be used to make such pretty pictures.
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5. carapaceApr 2022
   Yeah! It's not exactly "algorithms based on biological ideas", more like formal systems that mimic certain morphological aspects of plant life, but well worth a look: "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop (It's mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but I feel it's worth "surfacing" here on it's own.)
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6. rurbanMar 2022
   In my field it was only SICP.

   And then maybe during the fractal wave The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants.

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