leave

Long before I started creative coding, I loved the work coming out of Nervous System, such as these leaf-inspired lamps. I found a link to Reunion’s paper on leaf venetion in Anders Hoff’s series on generative algorithms, and decided to give it a go.

Leave was my first system I wrote in Rust. The repo I do most of my work in is still called “leave”!

I also tried implementing the closed venetion pattern. It has a few quirks, but I love how it draws circular patterns.

I can create interesting patterns by shifting the colors: