It is 2017, I am working as a working student at UDATA, and we are trying to make environment education “cool” again. So we came up with Urnature, a cute little education app that integrates with existing learning trails in nature reservations and enriches them with minigames, fact checks, …
At that point in time I was really into procedural generation (labyrinth games!), so I took the opportunity of my upcoming Bachelor thesis to do something useful for a change — procedurally generate 2D trees for use in an Android app!
I did so by formulating Lindenmayer systems rules, and tried to adapt the parameters to ‘recreate’ existing trees. It works (😇), although the performance is terrible and therefore is not fit for use in real-time applications. Still quite cool!
You can read more about it here, although it is in German. Well, still nice for the pictures :)
(Some generated trees. The artifacts show where the trees border screen)