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As good an example as any, I think, of how even the simplest of computer programs can yield surprising results that take significant work to explain.
I’ve used variations on this very curve with intro programming students — with turtles, of course! It’s so pleasing.
@inthehands @dpiponi it occurs to me that some of the L-systems playing I’ve wanted to do might be easier in a turtle framework
@kevinriggle @inthehands Perfect for L-systems I'd have thought.
@dpiponi @kevinriggle
If you give the L-system a stack of turtle states, then yes! See _The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants_, which expresses them in exactly this way.
@inthehands @dpiponi Oh that is in fact the book on my bookshelf which I had been meaning to get to, well then
@kevinriggle @dpiponi
It’s a wonderful book. Please enjoy!