Evolution of Xanthorrhoea 001

Having produced code that can draw a basic trunk the next step is to convert this into a procedure that can be passed variables of (height, width, start_x, start_y)

Once I have created a procedure I can call it many times to draw many grass trees.

processing code

// Author: Rupert Russell
// Title: xanthorrhoea 001.1
// Date: October 20, 2010

void setup() {
   size(300, 300);
   smooth();
}

void draw() {
   noLoop(); 
   
   // draw trunk
   int trunk_width = 25;
   float step = 0.7;
   int start_x = width /3;
   int start_y = height;
   float lean = 0.1;

   for (int counter = 0; counter < 150; counter ++){
  
     strokeWeight(random(0.2, 2));
     float rand_y = random(0.2, 5);
     float rand_x = random(10);
     line(start_x + rand_x + lean * counter , start_y - (step * counter) - rand_y , start_x + trunk_width + rand_x + lean * counter, start_y - (step * counter) - rand_y * 2 );
   }
}

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APA citation:
Russell, R. (2016, July 05, 07:26 am). Evolution of Xanthorrhoea 001_1.
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