[PD] The sound of algae growing

[Chris McCormick]

Hello PdPeople,

Who wants to make some fractal music? Here are two abstractions that
implement a Lindenmayer system. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system>

[s-ireplace] is an abstraction that takes a single integer and outputs a
list of integers according to the rules specified. So you might send a
message [rule 1 2 3( and then when you send a [1( you will get back a
list '2 3'.

[s-lsystem] uses [s-ireplace] internally to iteratively replace lists
of integers with lists of integers according to rules defined in the
same way as above, thus implementing a Lindenmayer system.

Lindenmayer systems are great for generating complex sets of data from
simple rules and initial values.

<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/*checkout*/s-abstractions/s-ireplace.pd?root=svn>
<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/*checkout*/s-abstractions/s-ireplace-help.pd?root=svn>
<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/*checkout*/s-abstractions/s-lsystem.pd?root=svn>
<http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/*checkout*/s-abstractions/s-lsystem-help.pd?root=svn>

If you want, you could also use these with Gem to make natural looking
tree-like 3d structures. Check the pd-list archives for a previous
implementation of that idea which used a much simpler Lindenmayer system
which was not quite as flexible.

Best,

Chris.

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