PyPlants has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few days (well, evenings), and now from its new home as PyPlants on bitbucket sports a completely rewritten rendering backend which is more modular, should be really easy to plug into, and now supports POV-Ray out of the box.
What’s that you say? A 3-D ray-tracer? …
In the previous part of this article we looked at the background to L-Systems, and how they could be used for describing self-similar biological systems. In this part we’ll look at a sample implementation of a very basic 2D L-System in Python, together with a basic PNG renderer using PyCairo.
This is an implementation of a …
For a fledgling project idea, I’ve recently needed to work out how to draw plants procedurally, and of course Python is my language of choice for some rapid prototyping. Whilst some richly-featured professional applications exist for generating flora in a procedural fashion for high-end rendering, there are precious few systems available for the kind of …
This is a handy little snippet that allows you to set rate limits for views in Django.
Beautiful Soup is a great little Python module that will read just about any HTML page and give you back a structured parsed tree. It’s awesome because you can pass it just about any mangled markup — I’ve never known it to choke on anything. For some web service consumers I’ve had to write over …