context_free

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CONTEXT_FREE: A library for context free art in Ruby-Processing.

RECOMMENDED READING: contextfreeart.org wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

HOW TO: For now, check out the samples.

TO DO:

• Make the drawings run in a separate thread so you can watch 'em go.
• Determine if we can run the rules iteratively without needing to parse them.
• Settle on a more compact vocabulary of options (although not as cryptic as ContextFree.app's).
• Comment the examples with helpful pointers.
• Write a real README.
• Stick up a GitHub wiki that's just a page full of images of all the examples.
• Try some neat integrations of context_free + control_panel.