{"id":819,"date":"2022-02-15T03:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/?p=819"},"modified":"2022-02-15T03:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T03:49:48","slug":"marcos-lopez-la-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/2022\/02\/15\/marcos-lopez-la-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos Lopez LA-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LSystem 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Working on the first L–System was really inspired by the book. I first started by making most of the examples in the book until I felt I was comfortable with what was happening. Then I went into messing with the rules and making them my own. I personally enjoyed the sharp edges and robotic look of the 90 degree angle. So I made the axiom a square and started messing with the rules and found something that I found pleasing while not being too inspired by the fractal designs from the book. I really enjoy the way my fractal creates this design where I see goggles or a mask. (left). But I also really enjoy the squared-off look on the right. I went with the design on the right for the physical cut-out which was laser cut anything with more iterations was too delicate to print at the size we had available. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My L-System design after 7 iterations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After 5 iterations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Botanical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I remember working in Net-Logo and stumbling into this sort of design while working with recursion for the first time. But the L-System approach is much more sophisticated and can lead to a much more interesting design. I like many others did not realize that there was a way to have randomness in the rules of our L-System and had a fairly boring design, to begin with. However, as soon as we learned that my designs for the trees that I was creating were certainly cooler. I chose this one in particular because it just looked the most appealing to me. I did not choose to put leaves or anything on the end of the tree, but it could have been a good way to introduce some color to the design. But I personally like the way the dark branches contrast with the white background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shapes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now, this was the hardest and yet most rewarding part of this assignment. I had the most fun creating these insane L-Systems. When I first started, I could not figure out a satisfying shape to use to create this L-System, I saw the example on the page and could not bring myself to do something similar. Instead, I wasted plenty of time trying to make the turtle draw interesting shapes and then iterating those and I almost entirely made useless images. Then I went back and said what shapes are already done in processing and picked Circles and Squares as they had pre-built functions and I did not have to do anything fancy. Plus, I found that these shapes could be filled with color. I put those circles and squares into my original L-System and out popped something awesome yet unrefined. Then I thought what if I got rid of the path of the turtle and just kept the shapes and another awesome thing popped out. Then I thought what if I make the turtle path the same color as the background and yet again another even more interesting thing popped out. I for the most part used the same code in the original L-System with only small changes to some of the rules and drawing interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Album Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Design with stroke of turtle same color as background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stroke on but no turtle drawing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A closer look at middle Shapes L-System<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rogan Brown Inspired<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Rogan Brown paper pieces are so cool and the attention to detail is insane. I however did not have a good time trying to emulate that work. I am not even that happy with the work that came up with. The biggest thing I saw that came out of his work was these tentacle-like things or spindrals which I called them. There would be a center mass with lots of branching vines coming out and that’s what I chose to emulate. I made some designs that hardcoded some starting circles and made these spindrals that came out of the circle in similar but technically random ways. The final design is what I chose to cut out of paper. It was not pretty. The design was probable too intricate to cut out in the paper and I lost one completely to me trying to get the cut design out of the entire paper. I think if I were to follow this up I would make a bigger much larger stroke width to make a piece that would hold up better in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Code URL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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LSystem 1 Working on the first L–System was really inspired by the book. I first started by making most of the examples in the book until I felt I was comfortable with what was happening. Then I went into messing with the rules and making them my own. I personally enjoyed the sharp edges and robotic look of the 90 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lsystem-lace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handandmachine.org\/classes\/computational_fabrication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}