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L2 Designer

A Tool for Genetic L-system Programming in Context of Generative Art

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We propose a new format to define parametric L-systems (L2 language) and its implementation in JavaScript (L2 Designer). Our language allows us to create formal definition of the hierarchy of L-systems. The L2 Designer enables us to discover L-system grammars by means of interactive evolution - the common method used in Evolutionary art.

We provide an example of L2 program and we illustrate possibilities of L2 Designer on the two case studies. First case study was inspired by an artistic decorative floral pattern. Second case study describes the detailed process of developing a new L-system grammar that leads to the original graphics.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Konrády, Kamila Štekerová & Barbora Tesařová

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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  2. Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

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Konrády, T., Štekerová, K., Tesařová, B. (2016). L2 Designer. In: Nguyen, N., Kowalczyk, R., Filipe, J. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXIV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53525-7_5

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