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mantalk
Very nice.

Is there any way to control balance? Could there be?

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That's a good idea- bias in one direction or the other could create wind-swept looking trees. I'll throw that in later tonight.
mantalk
Awesome. That could make for an interesting model of skew versus sun direction/latitude, too.
chomicki
a randomness/mutation/imperfection slider would be neat, especially if it could cause chaos along a branch and its nodes.
Jupe
Neat. Apparently, it makes root vegetables too :)

Trunk Width: 200 segment length: -30 branching angle: 100 branching symmetry: 50

mantalk
Playing with the settings, different species of trees come to mind... It would be really interesting to classify and group trees by these parameters.
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Just added that bias setting. Now you can make windswept trees: http://www.filosophy.org/projects/trees/#jwi3ouq0U

I like the idea of classifying trees by looking at the parameters of the branch structure -- I think that kind of approach would very well complement traditional computer vision methods.

Another thing that I've been wanting to play with is creating a 'forest' of these kinds of parametrizable trees and running a genetic algorithm to see what parameters win out in collecting "sunlight", etc. Could be fun, but would take a bit longer to make...

mantalk
Very nice.

Forests could be cool...creating a genetic algorithm for such a forest could be a lot of work and lead to less interesting results than expected...