One strip folded in half over and over, never crossing itself, tiling the plane into a shape that looks designed but is only folding.
Curve & Field Backgrounds
Fractal Tree Growth
A trunk splits, and splits again, each fork seeded to lean its own way so the canopy fills in branch by branch and never twice the same.
- fractal
- tree
- branching
About Fractal Tree Growth
A trunk splits, and splits again, each fork seeded to lean its own way so the canopy fills in branch by branch and never twice the same.
Part of Curve & Field Backgrounds. Runs 12 seconds by default, exports in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, as MP4 or transparent WebM up to 8K.
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