First submission and I’m still new at this ruby thing, so please be
gentle:)
I was interested in studying l-systems a few weeks ago so it was a
pleasant
surprise to see something very similar in this quiz prompt. The ‘hard’
part
was rebuilding the grammar. I’ve left the original koch curve in there
as
an example of how to mess with things. One thing I’m puzzled about is
that
generating the strings is (relatively) fast, but writing the image is
where
all the slowdown is. I haven’t quite worked that out yet but for now I
consider this “good enough”.
BEGIN
#usage: fractal.rb [count]
#count is the iteration count
require ‘rubygems’
require ‘RMagick’
require ‘date’
#shamelessly taken from ruby cookbook (i think)
class String
def mgsub(key_value_pairs=[].freeze)
regexp_fragments = key_value_pairs.collect { |k,v| k }
gsub(Regexp.union(*regexp_fragments)) do |match|
key_value_pairs.detect{|k,v| k =~ match}[1]
end
end
end
#Here are the initial conditions
#Mess with these to get different fractal shapes
str = “A”
#rules = [[/A/, ‘B-A-B’], [/B/, ‘A+B+A’]] #koch curve? i
think
so
rules = [[/A/, ‘A-A+A+A-A’]]
length = 2
theta = 90
1.upto ARGV[0].to_i do |i|
start = Time.now
curx = 200.0
cury = 700.0
dir = 0
canvas = Magick::Image.new(1024, 768)
gc = Magick::Draw.new
puts "Iteration #{i}"
puts "String is \n\t #{str}"
str.each_byte do |chr|
prevx = curx
prevy = cury
case chr.chr
when “A”
curx += length * Math::cos(dir * Math::PI / 180)
cury += length * Math::sin(dir * Math::PI / 180)
gc.line(prevx, prevy, curx, cury)
prevx = curx
prevy = cury
when "B"
curx += length * Math::cos(dir * Math::PI / 180)
cury += length * Math::sin(dir * Math::PI / 180)
gc.line(prevx, prevy, curx, cury)
prevx = curx
prevy = cury
when "-"
dir -= theta
dir %= 360
when "+"
dir += theta
dir %= 360
end
end
puts “Killer, done with str.each_byte - pass # #{i}”
gc.text(15, 15,"#{i}, length of #{length}, theta of #{theta} degrees")
gc.draw(canvas)
canvas.write("#{i} - #{Date.today}.gif")
puts “Iteration #{i} took #{Time.now - start} seconds.”
unless i == ARGV[0].to_i
str = str.mgsub(rules)
end
puts str
end
END