LS-Art

L-System art generator with graphical user interface in Gtk+3 and using Cairo drawing library.

Program reads L-System description from text file in ini format, generates production string according to it and renders a drawing by interpreting this string with turtle graphics.

Usage

Program is intended to work under Linux operating system. Program must be run from bin folder within directory structure.

Directories structure

src - source code files
l-systems - input text files describing L-Systems
svg - folder for storing drawings as svg files
obj - compiled object files
bin - folder with final executable

obj and bin folders are created by make program before compiling source codes.

Input files

Program reads from ../l-systems folder files with .ls extension and having ini format:

# Sierpinski triangle

[L-System]
name=Sierpinski triangle
axiom=F-G-G
numRules=2
rule0=F>F-G+F+G-F
rule1=G>GG
angle=120
iterations=6
lineLength=30
closed=1

, where closed (value can be 0, or 1) means, if drawing path should be closed, i.e. start and end point connected and other parameters are common for L-System definition.

Output files

Drawings can be stored as SVG files in ../svg folder.

Development

Tools

GNU Make
pkg-config
g++

Dependencies

Development packages for GTK3 and Cairo2 libraries - libgtk-3-dev and libcairo2-dev packages on Debian-based systems. Normal packages for those libraries should be installed by default on modern Linux OS.

Building

$ make

Contributing

Feel free to fork and play with project. Pull requests with enhancements or fixes are also welcome!

Third party

For reading ini files ini-parser is used.

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

freetomik / LS-Art