Research Summary

I started my research looking at fractals in general and then decided to make a fractal structure using L-Systems. L-System or Lindenmayer System was introduced by Aristid Lindenmayer a Hungarian Biologist. The aim of this project was using this method to model the growth of a plant.

Houdini Algorithm



Axiom

Step 2 - 1st Recursion

Step 3 - 2nd Recursion

Many (13) Recursions

Rules Snippet

Premise (Step 1) - FFFA

Rule 1 - A = ! "[B]////[B]////B

Rule 2 - B = &FFFA

F creates segments

A and B are used to create the branches

Animation



Final Rendering

Thank you Ryan and Robert!