16 May 2008

Roots and Tendrils

I've been hammering away at a Common Lisp library for SVG. Last week I decided to take a break from studying the arcana of clipping windows and alpha masks to see if I could translate some of the gallery examples from NodeBox into SVG nicely. My library isn't ready for Graphic Cellular Domestication — that'll take Javascript — but some of the random walk ones turned out ok:





I quite like my modification of the tendrils algorithm, if I do say so myself:



Of course, SVG isn't recognized as an uploadable image format many places, so the pictures are PNG.
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5 comments:

  1. Kathleen5/19/08, 11:34 AM

    Those would make pretty nice desktop wallpapers.

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  2. kib6/1/08, 7:57 AM

    Impressive : nice work.

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  3. kib6/1/08, 8:04 AM

    Sorry, I forgot my question :

    Will you provide any code ? I'm beginning Lisp, and I was waiting for something concrete; a graphical language seems a good starting point.

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  4. Wm6/2/08, 3:44 PM

    Kib, the code is all in the file testing.lisp in the project:

    http://cl-svg.googlecode.com/

    http://code.google.com/p/cl-svg/source/browse/trunk/testing.lisp

    See the functions "root" and "make-tendril".

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  5. kib6/3/08, 4:47 PM

    Thanks, I had to take a look at it.
    See you.

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