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Ever heard of Aristid Lindenmayer? Me neither! Until in 1996 a hint led me to Laurens Lapré's website. On his website you could find a freeware program for MS DOS called LParser and images that demonstrated what you can do with it. (Should you be interested search Internet Archive). And it did a lot of neat things like creating plants, animals and geometric structures all based on a syntax consisting of letters and symbols you could generate with a text editor. It had some output options to get dxf or raw files and inc files for Povray version 2. The images below were created by feeding the Lparser output to Moray and/or Povray (Sounds easy but it needs a lot of tweaking and converting). I added some new images produced in the 2020ies marked with an asterisk*. |
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LParser Gallery |
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Variations of Hilbert curve (various levels of recursion) |
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left: Circular tile* right: PentaPlexity* |
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Create animals with L-System!
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Airhorse |
below: Airhorse |
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The Kraken Wakes (by John Wyndham) |
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Koch islands and lakes* |
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Koch curve* |
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Sierpinksi pyramids* |
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recursion level 5 |
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recursion level 7 |
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Sierpinksi variations by Martin Higgs: 'Ammonites'* |
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'Rubric snake'* |
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'Hexagon'* |
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'Diamond'* |
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'Star'* |
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Sierpinksi 'Snakes'* |
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Creations by Cees van der Mark: Pythagoras semi 3D form and Pythagoras Tree |
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The 'Whirlygig'* and the 'Tree of Life'* (below) |
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Menger 'Cubism' |
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recursion levels 4* and 6* |
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Menger cubes - outside/inside - |
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Menger variations* |
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recursion levels 2, 4 |
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Menger 'pseudo' carpets: variant 1 |
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recursion level 4 |
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I isolated the silver structures of the carpet below - why? Because I could! |
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recursion level 6 |
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Menger 'pseudo' carpets: variant 2 |
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recursion level 2 |
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recursion level 4 |
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Copyright (c) 1996-2025 Droj. All rights reserved.