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there is a freeware book called The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop you can download a PDF file (high quality, 17M)
it contains info about modeling of trees, Fractal properties of plants, Graphical modeling using L-systems, etc etc. contains very good pictures with algorithms.
i see in this forum several very beautiful programs about these goodies such as L-systems.
i see also the Generator of random trees , and even the above seems more beautiful visually but i find the random tree generator more interesting especially when we convert it to a not random generator, since it can display the information like the DNA, and even i think too far, such as prime numbers, who know, the universe is full of surprises.
ErosOlmi
29-02-2016, 17:06
Great find!
Many years ago (almost 10) Petr posted a very nice script about tree generator:
http://www.thinbasic.com/community/showthread.php?7541-Generator-of-random-trees&highlight=tree+generator
Somewhere there should be a version with leafs too if I do not remember wrongly.
Maybe it can be a start for other great scripts.
Petr Schreiber
29-02-2016, 20:32
It can be still run in the latest thinBasic, without any change to code...
http://psch.thinbasic.com/articles_tree_generation.html
Nature is one of my passions, and this year it led me to Chile.
It will be a challenge to recreate what I saw in the incredible rainforests... trees covered with thin "fur" made of tiny flowers. What a views!
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Great find!
Many years ago (almost 10) Petr posted a very nice hydromax post (https://www.the5x5project.com/my-hydromax-review-results) script about tree generator:
Somewhere there should be a version with leafs too if I do not remember wrongly.
Maybe it can be a start for other great scripts.
Amazing, it's almost like nature runs on code.
Ernst Haeckl, a 19th century evolutionary scientist and marine biologist, If he was born after the computer age then certainly ... (just imagine)
look at his incredible book:
Art forms of nature
https://archive.org/details/ArtFormsOfNatureByErnstHaeckl
Whoa, it's very interesting topis. I've never heard about an algorithmic botanic.
thanks for your post. i have visited the archive.org page link above (Art forms of nature) and find another related (somewhat) interesting book called "Evolution in art: as illustrated by the life-histories of designs" 1895 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aXo_AAAAIAAJ
and who like a version with the dust of time look: https://archive.org/details/artevolution00haddrich
I've never heard about an algorithmic botanic.
i refer to the link by Eros about a 3D tree generator by Petr here: http://www.thinbasic.com/community/showthread.php?7541-Generator-of-random-trees&highlight=tree+generator
it is the best to be close to algorithmic botany, because it generate and read a string of characters resembles a genetic code
as an example: the twig can be like this:
twig = "x+abz+y+aby+aby-abx-abx-abz-abz-abz-aby-abx-y-abz+abz-abx-abx-abx-x+aby+abx+abx-aby+aby-abz-abz+x-aby-aby-aby-abx+abx-abz+z-abx-abz+abx+aby+abx-abx+aby+aby-x+abz-aby-abz+abz-abz+abz-aby-aby+x+aby-abx+abz-abz-aby+abz+abz+abz+abx+z-abz-x-abz+abz-abz+aby-abz+abz-aby-aby+abz-abx+z+aby-abx-aby+abz+abz-abx+x+abz+abz+abx+abz+abx+aby+abx+z+abz-abx-abx-y+aby+abx-abz-abx-abx+aby-abx-aby-abx+abx-abx+abz+aby+abz+abz+y+abx-abz-abx-aby-abz+abx+aby+aby-aby+abx+abx+aby-abx+abz-aby+aby+abx-abx-z+abz+x+abx+abx+abz+abx+abz+abx-abz-abx+abz+abx-z-aby+aby+aby-abz+aby-aby+abx-abz-aby+abz-aby+abz-abz-abx-"
i will look again at that example. and may be we can apply the idea on another than generating trees.