genart genesis

2025.12
my self-guided introduction to generative art in the form of a month long series of daily challenges

Day 7, "Rules". Aristid Lindenmayer was a Hungarian biologist who, in 1968, developed a mathematical system known as L-systems (Lindenmayer systems) to model the growth processes of plant development.

In today's exploration I used a common L system grammar to generate fractal ferns.

Click the frame to redraw the fern with new randomized parameters. Click here to open full screen.