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Solar Plant

Solar Plant explores growing L-System fractal trees on an e-ink display using only power from the Sun. A virtual pet plant the fractal tree grows in response to light on a rear solar panel.
Solar Plant
Solar Plant
Solar Plant


This project ports L-System examples from Dan Shiffman's Nature of Code course from P5.js to C++. Code has been rewritten to smoothly grow a plant that responds to changes in light throughout its lifetime. Consideration has also been given to functioning within the limited memory specifications of an Arduino compatible microcontroller.
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Solar Plant
Solar Plant
Solar Plant


See the process on my ITP blog
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