mlangd6 / lsystems

Visualize fractal

Project Functionnal Programming 2020: L-systems

This project was undertaken as part of my final year, in Licence 3 (equivalent to the last year of Bachelor in France) at University Paris Diderot within the scope of a functional programming course.

Submission and Evaluation Guidelines

See CONSIGNES.md

Prerequisites to Install

See INSTALL.md

• ocaml, of course
• dune and make are highly recommended
• graphics library if not already included with ocaml

Compilation and Execution

By default, make is used to abbreviate the dune commands (see Makefile for more details):

• make without arguments will compile main.exe using dune, which is your program in native code.

• make byte will compile to bytecode if necessary, useful for running your code in an OCaml toplevel, see lsystems.top.

• make clean to remove the temporary _build directory produced by dune during its compilations.

Finally, to run your program: ./run arg1 arg2 ...

Interactive Testing in emacs

Your program must have been compiled using make byte. You should have emacs installed, as well as an OCaml mode for emacs, such as tuareg-mode.

• In an external file start.ml outside the project directory, for example above the projet directory, copy the contents of lsystems.top without its first directive (#ocaml init). Add to the #directory directives the necessary prefixes to access the same directories (for example projet/ if you are above projet).

• In the same directory, open your test file under emacs. Start it with #use "start.ml;;". Simply evaluate this directive, which will launch the interpreter: you can then perform your tests.

If the program is recompiled (always using make byte), you will need to interrupt the interpreter with the #quit;; directive and then restart it by reevaluating #use "start.ml;;".