Have been reading about l-systems, mostly papers from here . Trying to get segment growth working as described in the growth functions section (1.9) of The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants . I don't understand a lot of it but I think I got the basic idea :D. It was really confusing after a certain point when reading about l-systems, they started making a lot more sense when I actually started trying to implement stuff! The important part is that F is getting rewritten. The g parameter is incremented each time to act as an age attribute, so g is the linear growth, and then length is set by using g in a funky smooth step type function thingy ((-2*g^3)+(3*g^2)) to get a kinda sigmoidal growth. The b variable is used to control the speed of the growth. The rest is just for controlling the branching so that the l-system came to some kind of end state. Like the m parameter in A(m) which decays over generations so that it stops getting replaced eventually. The generation paramet...
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