Hi

I have been reading the posts about TreeDesigner and L-Parser. I too
think that a melding of the two would be great, perhaps you could also
had a hint of Onyx's Tree Profestional!! However I have struggled for a
long time to figure out L-Parsers language. Through a lot ot trial and
error I was eventually able to figure out bits and pieces of it and even
created a small, ugly, tree with some leaves. However I still don't
really understand l-systems could someone please post an explanation of
how to create things, plants tree ect.., in L-Parser and especially is
language. Or point me to a tutorial. I find that documentation and
tutorials are sourly lacking for L-Parser.

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Thomas Lake wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have been reading the posts about TreeDesigner and L-Parser. I too
> think that a melding of the two would be great, perhaps you could also
> had a hint of Onyx's Tree Profestional!! However I have struggled for a
> long time to figure out L-Parsers language. Through a lot ot trial and
> error I was eventually able to figure out bits and pieces of it and even
> created a small, ugly, tree with some leaves. However I still don't
> really understand l-systems could someone please post an explanation of
> how to create things, plants tree ect.., in L-Parser and especially is
> language. Or point me to a tutorial. I find that documentation and
> tutorials are sourly lacking for L-Parser.

Lparser trees tutorial at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~cvdmark/tutor.html

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Also, you might want to note this advice: If you want to avoid seeing teh
cylinders in the trunk, or the first parts of the tree, just keep the basic
angle to about 10 degrees...and never change thickness by more than .9 at a
time, until you get to the further brances...I'll post some code up here this
afternoon, commented and everything, if you like. I just recently discovered
them, so I'm just learning.

How did you do leaves, anyhow?

Ken wrote:

> Thomas Lake wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have been reading the posts about TreeDesigner and L-Parser. I too
> > think that a melding of the two would be great, perhaps you could also
> > had a hint of Onyx's Tree Profestional!! However I have struggled for a
> > long time to figure out L-Parsers language. Through a lot ot trial and
> > error I was eventually able to figure out bits and pieces of it and even
> > created a small, ugly, tree with some leaves. However I still don't
> > really understand l-systems could someone please post an explanation of
> > how to create things, plants tree ect.., in L-Parser and especially is
> > language. Or point me to a tutorial. I find that documentation and
> > tutorials are sourly lacking for L-Parser.
>
> Lparser trees tutorial at:
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~cvdmark/tutor.html
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net



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Which part of lparser are you finding hard to deal with, anyway? If I have
specific info, I can tailor a tutorial to your needs. The one shown on Ken's
link is pretty thorough(its also included in the standard Lparser
distribution, as tutorial.txt.

Thomas Lake wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have been reading the posts about TreeDesigner and L-Parser. I too
> think that a melding of the two would be great, perhaps you could also
> had a hint of Onyx's Tree Profestional!! However I have struggled for a
> long time to figure out L-Parsers language. Through a lot ot trial and
> error I was eventually able to figure out bits and pieces of it and even
> created a small, ugly, tree with some leaves. However I still don't
> really understand l-systems could someone please post an explanation of
> how to create things, plants tree ect.., in L-Parser and especially is
> language. Or point me to a tutorial. I find that documentation and
> tutorials are sourly lacking for L-Parser.



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Alex Magidow wrote:
> 
> Also, you might want to note this advice: If you want to avoid seeing teh
> cylinders in the trunk, or the first parts of the tree, just keep the basic
> angle to about 10 degrees...and never change thickness by more than .9 at a
> time, until you get to the further brances...I'll post some code up here this
> afternoon, commented and everything, if you like. I just recently discovered
> them, so I'm just learning.
> 
> How did you do leaves, anyhow?

  An interesting thing happened today when I was cleaning out my demos,
evaluation, and final determination file directory today. In one of the
deeper levels of the directory I came across a .zip file of unknown
origin. After opening it a looking at the contents it appears to be a
program for generating Lparser trees. Anybody out there have any
experience with this and know if it's worth serious attention ?

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Ken Tyler

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What is the name of the program? Trees? That one disappeared years ago...tons of
pages have empty links to it.

You know what you need, ken? A website, called Ken's Junk drawer. I'm sure you have
every 3D graphics program ever created sitting, stealthily, on you hard drive.

Ken wrote:

> Alex Magidow wrote:
> >
> > Also, you might want to note this advice: If you want to avoid seeing teh
> > cylinders in the trunk, or the first parts of the tree, just keep the basic
> > angle to about 10 degrees...and never change thickness by more than .9 at a
> > time, until you get to the further brances...I'll post some code up here this
> > afternoon, commented and everything, if you like. I just recently discovered
> > them, so I'm just learning.
> >
> > How did you do leaves, anyhow?
>
>   An interesting thing happened today when I was cleaning out my demos,
> evaluation, and final determination file directory today. In one of the
> deeper levels of the directory I came across a .zip file of unknown
> origin. After opening it a looking at the contents it appears to be a
> program for generating Lparser trees. Anybody out there have any
> experience with this and know if it's worth serious attention ?
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net



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Alex Magidow wrote:
> 
> What is the name of the program? Trees? That one disappeared years ago...tons of
> pages have empty links to it.
> 
> You know what you need, ken? A website, called Ken's Junk drawer. I'm sure you have
> every 3D graphics program ever created sitting, stealthily, on you hard drive.

 Actualy I think I missed two of them. :)

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Alex Magidow wrote:
> 
> What is the name of the program? Trees? That one disappeared years ago...tons of
> pages have empty links to it.
> 
> You know what you need, ken? A website, called Ken's Junk drawer. I'm sure you have
> every 3D graphics program ever created sitting, stealthily, on you hard drive.
> 

  I found a more recent utility that offers about the same capabilities
as the Trees program. It is called Satan's Garden and can be down loaded
at: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7999/

  His documentation also has a fill command language discription for
LSystems which can add an extra reference source to information base.

  Also check out the AVI of the unicycle and the animated waving flag
include file while you are there.


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This program is almost exactly the same as Lparser- no capabilities that I don't find
in
lparser. Also, I have a graphical front for Lparser, which helps a lot(No worrying
about
notepad saving, "tree.ls.txt").

I'll just have to wait until someone creates a version with leaves.

Ken wrote:

> Alex Magidow wrote:
> >
> > What is the name of the program? Trees? That one disappeared years ago...tons of
> > pages have empty links to it.
> >
> > You know what you need, ken? A website, called Ken's Junk drawer. I'm sure you
have
> > every 3D graphics program ever created sitting, stealthily, on you hard drive.
> >
>
>   I found a more recent utility that offers about the same capabilities
> as the Trees program. It is called Satan's Garden and can be down loaded
> at: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/7999/
>
>   His documentation also has a fill command language discription for
> LSystems which can add an extra reference source to information base.
>
>   Also check out the AVI of the unicycle and the animated waving flag
> include file while you are there.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net



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