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This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time. L-Systems have always fascinated me. Last spring* quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini licens
by gdubs 6y ago
This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time. L-Systems have always fascinated me.
Last spring* quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini license. (There’s also a free learning edition with watermarks.) Houdini has a full featured L-System which is compatible with the systems described in this book.
You can even animate the parameters to create cool “growth” animations. Here’s a quick exploration I made recently:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CIgv8XKJkRx/?igshid=3ixzkhu2t4qn https://www.instagram.com/reel/CIgv8XKJkRx/?igshid=3ixzkhu2t...
(Apologies to non JS / non-Instagram users; only link I have at the moment.)
Correction: originally wrote “last year” when I mean to write “last spring”.
- tsimionescu 6y ago> Last year during spring quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini license. Completely off-topic, butyou made me curious - do you mean this year, or was there some quarantine event last year as well?
- gdubs 6y agoThanks for catching that. No, just an early morning typo before coffee has kicked in :) I meant to write “last spring” not “last year” - though I guess in about two weeks either would be correct.
- hrnnnnnn 6y agoFor anyone not quite ready to splurge, but who wants to try 3D L-Systems, a combination of Blender and the Animation Nodes addon is a free and open source alternative.