Fractalang

Generate fractals with the hieroglyphs-like programming language.

Online version of the editor

Video Fractalang tutorial

Documentation

How to build and run

The project uses nodejs, webpack and typescript.

npm install
npm run build-node
npm run generate-icon-tokens
npm build-web
# Now open dist/index.html

Develop mode

npm run serve-web

Structure of the project

TODO

TODO list

• More tutorials! (video/docs)
• The editor:
  • Better GUI.
  • History of changes.
  • The visible cursor in the debug mode.
  • Show the stack of the program in the debug mode.
  • Allow to change heading on start of drawing.
  • The tiling mode (render image multiple times as tiles)
  • Custom values with sliders.
• Rendering:
  • Allow gradient on the background.
  • More colors instead of two colors.
  • Shadow / Lighting strokes.
  • Paint/Pencil-like strokes.
  • Rendering to canvas instead of SVG.
• New Tokens:
  • Mirror (Axial symmetry) token.
  • Point reflection token.
  • "Dash/Dot line" tokens.
  • "Drawing arc" tokens based on ellipse.
  • Square roots.
• Core:
  • Starting stave.
  • Nested repeat/reverse tokens.
  • Animations?
• Bugs:
  • A problem with clicking on a token in a stave.