Lecture 8 Slides and Lab 5

Lecture 8: Modeling the World (Part II)

For Lab 5, before you attend, please make sure to have a Steel account. Check the presentation on how to do that: Open A Steel Account

Lab 5 will start with an intro presentation, here are the slides: Introduction to Operating Systems

Links for Lecture 8

Modeling


Generate a Tree as an L-System
L-Systems Explorer
Another L-System Applet
Applets to model nature
L-System Figures
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
L-Systems and Music

The Computational Beauty of Nature

Boids
Floys
Vectors

History of Computer Graphics and Animation

Dirk Helbing's Videos and Simulations

Icosystem - The Game: Description