Many things in nature grow from little to big. In fact, many people, when asked to name things that shrink, cannot normally name any for some time. But how does a tree actually grow?

Lindermayer was also fascinated by this question and develped a whole set of explanations, as a part of wider sintax-free grammars, to explain it. L-systems explain the groth of trees through a simple, unfolding, enlargement process, that we can imagine as the restarting every spring.

“Just a small change in the script of The crown and we get closer to an autumnal view.”

Download the source code: tree1.rvb.

“Option Explicit” is a series of scripts developed in collaboration with Ryoko Ikeda that deals with organic, abstract form and contemplates experiments that have been dealt with in aspects like geometry, light and shadows.

The intermediate goal is computationally explore shape creation, using the implementation of VBScripting that is offered inside Rhinoceros 4.0. The more far-seeing goal is to investigate algorithmic relationships among entities that usually surround us and re-establish their creative articulations, to simply allow us to deal with complexity.

This experiment, on our side, has the goal of understanding fractal object as a way to obtain morphogenesis. Each generation translates, scales and doubles. How to make it really work with rotations? The best answer would be quaternions, but also rotation matrices would do.

The construction curves are showing how the growth path resembles patterns that are typical in
nature: similar to the one that biologist observe in corals and other sea life.

Download the source code: crown.rvb.

“Option Explicit” is a series of scripts developed in collaboration with Ryoko Ikeda that deals with organic, abstract form and contemplates experiments that have been dealt with in aspects like geometry, light and shadows.

The intermediate goal is computationally explore shape creation, using the implementation of VBScripting that is offered inside Rhinoceros 4.0. The more far-seeing goal is to investigate algorithmic relationships among entities that usually surround us and re-establish their creative articulations, to simply allow us to deal with complexity.