Delightful Digital Dendrology Dawns
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pixel...@gmail.com
Apr 23, 2026, 7:37:04 PMApr 23
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Still tinkering with my Turtle Graphics stuff.
Thought I'd pop in to show off some nice organic looking trees.
Though, it's just a fractal with some wiggle factor, not approximating "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" (one of those odd, but enticing books)
Once things are solid I'll consider getting documentation in a TEdit file.
I'm still very much in the hacking and sculpting phase.
- Ryan
Thought I'd pop in to show off some nice organic looking trees.
Though, it's just a fractal with some wiggle factor, not approximating "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" (one of those odd, but enticing books)
Once things are solid I'll consider getting documentation in a TEdit file.
I'm still very much in the hacking and sculpting phase.
The demo is of course second fiddle to the turtle commands which exist outside it for use any way that would be applicable in other projects.
I've updated my project here:
Feel free to suggest fixes n features.
https://github.com/RyanBurnside/TURT.LISP
I've updated my project here:
Feel free to suggest fixes n features.
https://github.com/RyanBurnside/TURT.LISP
- Ryan
Paolo Amoroso
Apr 27, 2026, 3:37:47 PM (13 days ago) Apr 27
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Some redditors enjoy your cool dendrology dawns.
pixel...@gmail.com
Apr 27, 2026, 5:45:23 PM (13 days ago) Apr 27
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It would seem so - thanks! :)
I wrote a TEDIT page as well, hopefully it will be useful.
I couldn't quite get the style right to match the existing Xerox/Venue pages.
Stuff with some visual panache tends to get people looking it seems.
I may do more later, work is my priority for the near future but I poke at Medley when I can.
A lot of my stuff is exploratory tinkering - often visual.
For cool generative art projects, "The Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman has been interesting.
At some point I may like to implement "Boids" in Medley. It's fairly well covered in his book as well as being well covered in general.
AK Dewdney's articles from Scientific American may also be fun (I have 4 of his books - The Armchair Universe, The Magic Machine, The New Turing Omnibus, The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations)
I don't follow his conspiracy stuff, but the books themselves provide interesting projects.
I also rolled around the idea of an interface for GNU Go (The ancient game, not the programming language) through Medley, but that may detract as it's not a pure self hosted project.
- Ryan
I wrote a TEDIT page as well, hopefully it will be useful.
I couldn't quite get the style right to match the existing Xerox/Venue pages.
Stuff with some visual panache tends to get people looking it seems.
I may do more later, work is my priority for the near future but I poke at Medley when I can.
A lot of my stuff is exploratory tinkering - often visual.
For cool generative art projects, "The Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman has been interesting.
At some point I may like to implement "Boids" in Medley. It's fairly well covered in his book as well as being well covered in general.
AK Dewdney's articles from Scientific American may also be fun (I have 4 of his books - The Armchair Universe, The Magic Machine, The New Turing Omnibus, The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations)
I don't follow his conspiracy stuff, but the books themselves provide interesting projects.
I also rolled around the idea of an interface for GNU Go (The ancient game, not the programming language) through Medley, but that may detract as it's not a pure self hosted project.
- Ryan
Paolo Amoroso
Apr 28, 2026, 6:12:30 AM (12 days ago) Apr 28
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I wrote a TEDIT page as well, hopefully it will be useful.
I couldn't quite get the style right to match the existing Xerox/Venue pages.
A good starting point for producing Medley-style documentation with TEdit is the LispUsers template under lispusers/000-docs/ in the source tree (instructions are available). The TEdit manual explains how to copy character and paragraph looks from text in other documents, such as manuals you want to copy the style of.
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