[cairo] Spirolaterals

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Thu Oct 6 00:19:44 UTC 2016


On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 20:44:11 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:

> Inkscape's L-System extension might also be of interest:
> 
> http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Extensions-Render.html#Ext
> ensions-Lindenmayer

Yup, Inkscape is pretty neat. This 1984 paper by Alvy Ray Smith
<http://www.alvyray.com/Papers/PapersCG.htm#Graftals> covers L-systems
and other ways of automatically generating organic, plant-like shapes.

I have quoted Dr Smith on this list before. :)


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