This is a really cool resource for people who want to learn about how to render L-Systems, I wasn't aware they had been keeping up to date with the programs on there but I'll have to take a look for sure. L-studio goes all the way back to 1998.
"The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" is the seminal resource on lindenmayer systems, written by Aristid Lindenmayer himself. It's interesting to see how much of this is derived from not mathematics but partly from Noam Chomsky's theories on linguistics, particularly Chomsky Grammars (Where productions are derived sequentially in those, L-systems they are derived in parallel branches, which makes it great for modeling stuff like cell growth, trees, and other such branching structures).
The academic resources linked here are kind of hard to approach, in short the documentation is a bit lacking, but if anyone wants to get into trying to learn how to render these with free software I suggest starting with context free (2d) or structure synth (3d), as the resources for picking these up are a bit better than an html file made in 1998
People like to shit talk NFTs a lot but for us we haven't been able to approach making money on this kind of thing outside of art niches, or joining big studios with budgets to throw at it since these came out basically. I think the first people to make money on these were probably Pixar and Lucasfilm, I've seen some pretty damn interesting old papers on the subject from around the 1980s. You can get some really cool looking renders out of these.
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
"The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" is the seminal resource on lindenmayer systems, written by Aristid Lindenmayer himself. It's interesting to see how much of this is derived from not mathematics but partly from Noam Chomsky's theories on linguistics, particularly Chomsky Grammars (Where productions are derived sequentially in those, L-systems they are derived in parallel branches, which makes it great for modeling stuff like cell growth, trees, and other such branching structures).
The academic resources linked here are kind of hard to approach, in short the documentation is a bit lacking, but if anyone wants to get into trying to learn how to render these with free software I suggest starting with context free (2d) or structure synth (3d), as the resources for picking these up are a bit better than an html file made in 1998
https://www.contextfreeart.org http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/
Of course if your bag is big expensive fx workshops like houdini or whatever you probably know what these are already haha