#l-systems posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/l-systems/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #l-systems. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:22:16 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ L-system animation tests https://bencrowder.net/blog/2010/l-system-animation-tests/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2010/l-system-animation-tests/ Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT I’ve been playing around some more with the L-system code and modified it to animate the angle property and output each frame to a file. I also added some color and started using blending modes for the brushes. Once I clean up the code, I’ll post it to GitHub.

Anyway, here are some of the animation tests (I used Blender to put the frames together into an animation):

And the first one I did, which is a little too long and a little too fast:

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]]> L-system sketches https://bencrowder.net/blog/2010/l-system-sketches/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2010/l-system-sketches/ Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT I’ve been getting into procedural drawing and generative art some more, and last week I decided to try out L-systems. I ported some Processing code to Javascript and Canvas, then modified it and added controls so I could tweak the values and try things out. I also wrote a handful of additional brushes to get more interesting renders out of it (since plain lines can be kind of boring).

The algorithm isn’t entirely accurate — at least based off of the axioms and rulesets I plugged in from the Algorithmic Beauty of Plants book — but I like what I’m getting. I’ll do a second app sometime later with the correct algorithm.

Anyway, the code (which is kind of messy at the moment) is on GitHub. Sometime later I plan to add color selectors and more brushes. You can see the rest of these images in my sketches set on Flickr.

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