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TL L-System Generator

Todor Latev

TL L-System Generator

Todor Latev

A native Autodesk® AutoCAD® Lindenmayer System (L-System) generator/processor. Draw complex shapes/fractals through the use of iteration.

Free

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 theoretical biologist and botanist at the University of Utrecht. Lindenmayer used L-systems to describe the behaviour of plant cells and to model the growth processes of plant development. L-systems have also been used to model the morphology of a variety of organisms and can be used to generate self-similar fractals.

Read more at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

This app provides a GUI interface for generating L-Systems inside Autodesk® AutoCAD®.

Features:

  • Native AutoCAD GUI palette interface
  • Unlimited number of rules
  • Fully customizable Grammar in a dedicated tab
  • Stochastic/probabilistic rules support
  • Automatic randomization of length and angle parameters
  • Interactive geometry generation
  • Detailed command line output for debugging
  • Load/Save custom L-System definitions from/to an XML file
  • A Pre-set library with 50 example L-System definitions
  • Max Output Sentence length control
  • AutoCAD Line and Point objects supported with optional automatic grouping

Details

Operating system

win64-platform-icon

Release date

Feb 16, 2023


Last updated

Mar 22, 2023


Version

2023.1.21.1


Language

English

Compatible with

ACD-icon

ACD

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

MAP-icon

MAP

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

CIV3D-icon

CIV3D

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

ACAD_E-icon

ACAD_E

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

BLDSYS-icon

BLDSYS

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

AMECH_PP-icon

AMECH_PP

2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Capabilities

Landscaping

Analysis and simulation

Diagramming

Modeling

Learning

Blocks

Tags

Hatches

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

For stochastic rules make sure the individual rule probabilities add up to 100% - the app will still generate the L-System, but the result may not obey the correct distribution if this condition is not fulfilled.

For questions/comments/suggestions/bug reports etc please send an email to Todor.Latev@gmail.com.

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