Tool for procedurally generating Lego structures

[jncraton]

As part of one of my courses, I was asked to create a project applying formal grammars to some problem. I thought that someone here might find it interesting:

https://github.com/jncraton/connectiongrammar/blob/master/readme.md

[fred67]

Wow.  That's really cool.  I work in computer graphics and have implemented L-Systems for generating trees; My master's thesis was also on terrain generation and rendering, so that last part was particularly cool to me.

I don't know what other systems are out there, I work in graphics professionally, but Maya has Python scripting; so does Blender, and Unreal Engine now has a Python plug-in (and, of course, that latter two are free).

 

Edited April 18, 2018 by fred67

[supertruper1988]

So can this output a Ldraw or LKFML file?

[jncraton]

6 hours ago, supertruper1988 said:

So can this output a Ldraw or LKFML file?

Yes. The models generated by this package are in LDraw format.

6 hours ago, fred67 said:

Wow.  That's really cool.  I work in computer graphics and have implemented L-Systems for generating trees; My master's thesis was also on terrain generation and rendering, so that last part was particularly cool to me.

Thanks. I'm a complete novice in this area, so if anything looks amiss or there's particular papers or other work that you've seen that might be helpful to me, I'm open to ideas and suggestions.

[Scrubs]

I had a quick read of the your github page. I don't understand everything but I see some cool stuff that it can be used for. I shall try to play with it at some stage.

That may be something of interest to include to Mecabricks - I can run python scripts on the server side - but that may be a discussion for later 

[Littleworlds]

This looks like really impressive stuff to me. I don't build digitally, but the results on the page speak for themselves. Very cool and very useful!  

[jncraton]

14 hours ago, Scrubs said:

That may be something of interest to include to Mecabricks - I can run python scripts on the server side - but that may be a discussion for later 

That sounds like a cool application. You are free to use the code as it's licensed GPL v3.