WillAdams
April 30, 2020, 11:00pm
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or something.
Currently looking into CADquery which is a jquery-inspired system for doing parametric design — since I first came across it has made some notable strides:
and researching that led me to a subreddit on parametric design which in turn led to one on procedural grammars which led to one on L-systems:
An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar. An L-system consists of an alphabet of symbols that can be used to make strings, a collection of production rules that expand each symbol into some larger string of symbols, an initial "axiom" string from which to begin construction, and a mechanism for translating the generated strings into geometric structures. L-systems were introduced and developed in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer, a Hungarian theoret...
see:
https://ehrenjn.github.io/LSystems/
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Julien
May 1, 2020, 8:13am
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Reading “L-system”, I just had a flashback of the 90’s when fractals were used everywhere in computer graphics
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WillAdams
May 14, 2020, 4:24am
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Since I wrote the above, the recommended editor has become a workbench in FreeCAD — this is easily installed via the Tools | Addon Manager.
WillAdams
May 30, 2020, 11:00pm
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WillAdams
January 28, 2021, 4:09pm
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And since I wrote all that, I’ve learned that the FreeCAD Workbench was an early version, and that a stand-alone version is the focus of development.
