The blog mentions it at the very end but the linked text “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” is a great read. L-systems, the technique used to generate these tre

The blog mentions it at the very end but the linked text “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” is a great read. L-systems, the technique used to generate these trees are a surprisingly easy way of generating various fractal-like patterns, and are a very fun thing to play with. It’s not that often that a relatively dense bit of CS can be used to make such pretty pictures.