Indian Goddess - Durga

This illustration shows the use of repetitive design objects while drawing a human-form figure - in this case an Indian Goddess.

Eggs

Here is something that is even more simple. Ellipses painted with a slight translation and rotation with reducing size.

Limitless Squares

This is yet another example of the power of iterative code. The canvas is divided into four equal square areas. Each of which contains either a Square (with a circle inset) or is further divided into four equal squares. And this continues ...

The code is:

startshape A

rule A 100 {
A { s 0.5 x 0.25 y 0.25 }
A { s 0.5 x -0.25 y -0.25 }
A { s 0.5 x -0.25 y 0.25 }
A { s 0.5 x 0.25 y -0.25 }
}

rule A 50 {
B {}
}

rule B {
SQUARE {}
SQUARE {s 0.9 b 1}
CIRCLE { s 0.2 hue 60 sat 1 b 0.9 }
}

rule B {
SQUARE {}
SQUARE {s 0.9 hue 60 sat 1 b 0.9 }
CIRCLE { s 0.2 b 1}
}

The same code generates another variation of the image.

SquaresNCircles

Here is yet another simple creation that randomly places squares and circles on the canvas. The interesting aspect of the language is that different pictures get created without a change in code! Thus, a slight variation of the image is shown below.

Spiral

This is a simple spiral. All that has been done is rotate a shape - square in this case - by 1 degree while continually reducing its size.

startshape FIGURE
background{b -1}
rule FIGURE {
SHAPES{}
}

rule SHAPES {
SHAPE{}
SHAPES{s -0.99 r 1}
}

rule SHAPE {
SQUARE{}
SQUARE{s 0.99 hue 30 sat 1 b 1}
}

Triangle Set

A simple set of Triangles juxtapositioned next to one another with a reduction in size. The code that generates this figure is shown below:

startshape B

rule A{
TRIANGLE{b 0.2}
TRIANGLE{s 0.95 b 1}
A{s 0.9}
}

rule B{
A{}
A{x 0.5 y 0.3 flip 180}
A{x 1}
A{x 0.5 y 0.88}
}

Now adding a few color elements to the code gets us this.