Structure synth

Structure synth is a little program which produces quasi-random three-dimensional images by using Context-free grammar. It seems popular to render the output using the Java based renderer Sunflow. I have also been experimenting with using LuxRender.

Glass Mondrian

Inspired by Flickr: Schmiegel: Mondrian, I used the Mondrian example which comes with Structure Synth to create a glass version. I had little luck rendering this in Sunflow: any combination of caustics which I tried lead to somewhat artificial looking images:

I then turned to LuxRender. With a bit of trial and error, the scene language isn't too hard to understand (it's mainly used as a renderer for Blender, but I've never had the time to learn how to use Blender). This is a physics based renderer which solves the entire render equation. This gives much better results, but with long rendering times:

Various tests with Sunflow

It is popular to render the images using Sunflow. The latter is a JAVA implementation of a global-illumination render. It's free, open-source, and has an easy to understand input language. Anyway, below are some images which I've rendered using this combination.

These are some recent(ish) renders.

The most annoying thing about Structure Synth at present is that the export filters don't make intelligent choices as to where to put lights: this makes the "ward" export, in particular, hard to use.

The following are based upon my own attempt at an "EisenScript", which you can download here.

Inspiration: Sunflowed Schneck, Shards, TheHappening,

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