Description

A Lindenmayer system is a formal grammar often used to model the growth processes of plant development. Alternatively, an L-system can be used as a model to create novel forms.
“aab” uses a basic L-system model to create forms consisting of self-dividing aligned boxes. The process is similar to the one constructing a Menger Sponge, only that in the case of aab, randomness is used in a much higher degree, allowing the creation of a variety of forms.
A triangulated 3d model of the result can be exported as POV-ray .raw triangle format, which can be imported by various 3d packages, such as POV-ray and Rhinoceros.

aab was programmed in Java 1.5 using Netbeans as a development environment, and JOGL for hardware accelerated drawing.

aab is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Pictures

Exported 3d models.