A convivial visualization environment for Lsystems
Luís Da Costa, Jacques-André Landry · 2004
LOGO-style turtle 2 ; this classic interpretation, used in virtually all LSystem-related publications, was originally proposed by Szilard and Quinton 3 ; Prusinkiewicz then presented a good number of fractals and plant-like objects using this approach 4,5 2 Motivation, state of the art In order to exploit the intuitive nature and the power related to LSystems it is essential to work in a convivial environment, one that ideally would allow to interact simultaneously with the grammatical definition of the object being designed and with its graphical interpretation. The most important creation in this area was by Prusinkiewicz and Federl 6 , who conducted the development of an interactive environment for creating and conducting simulated experiments. It is called the Virtual Laboratory and is focused on graphical applications of LSystems, with an emphasis on the generation of fractals and the modeling of plants. To pursue our research work 7 , we felt the need for an environm