Spider Plant

on 21 Oct 2022

% Spider plant ... or maybe some grass?

% Draw a bunch of leaves distributed around a cluster

for i=0:.04:2

L(i*pi,rand*.8+.2)

end

% Call once for all leaves

shading interp

% Green fancy colormap

m=0:.1:1;

m(3,:)=m;

m(2,:)=.6:.04:1;

colormap(m');

% Lights

light

material([.6

.4])

view(3)

axis equal off

camzoom(2)

function L(a,p)

% L(a,p) - Draw a long thing leaf with CData accentuating the center

% a - angle of rotation around the clump of grass

% p - phi angle ratio of rotation from flat (0) to pointing up (1)

% For phi -

% We want short R near 0, and short R at top and long in the middle.

% We want Z low near 0, and tall near 1

m=0:.01:1;

[R,T]=ndgrid(m*sinpi(p),-.2:.1:.2);

% We want the leaf wide in the middle, and going to a point at the end

W=T.*(1-m')+a;

% Draw:

% Z has a curve across R, but modified by phi

% C has green on the edges, white in the middle via cos curve

surface(R.*cos(W),R.*sin(W),sinpi(R*.9)*p,cospi(T*5));

end

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