General Interest:Digital Art

These plants were created with L-systems, which also simulate the impact of outside forces on the plant such as gravity, wind, and sunlight.

How to make it: The L-systems were created in Mathematica to output the initial data, which was then displayed by geomview (developed here at the Geometry Center) or rayshade (a raytracer by Craig Kolb).

Image created: summer 1992

Copyright © summer 1992 by The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For permission to use this image, contact permission@geom.umn.edu.

External viewing: small (100x100 6k gif), medium (500x637 76k gif), or original size (727x925 388k tiff).

Comments to: webmaster@geom.umn.edu
Created: Thu Jun 25 15:09:37 CDT 1998 --- Last modified: Thu Jun 25 15:09:37 CDT 1998