Aaaand it's gone. The front page of HN is a bit rough on smaller web servers. I read 'The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants' a bunch of times, even implemented some

Aaaand it's gone. The front page of HN is a bit rough on smaller web servers. I read 'The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants' a bunch of times, even implemented some of the algorithms in Java (although I mostly just used recursion rather than L-systems). Must get back into that.