The Pythagoras tree was first drawn by Dutchman Albert E. Bosman. He drew this tree in 1942 on a drawing board in a department of AEG in Nazi Germany. He was employed and actually had to design parts for submarines. However, as a silent sabotage, he drew endless rectangular triangles with a square on each side (hence "Pythagoras") creating a fractal in which you could recognize a stylized tree. Others, however, see in it a cauliflower rose.... For this work, I wrote a recursive algorithm that generates a Pythagoras tree as a vector representation. In this case, the rectangular triangle is just short of an isosceles triangle, so the left side is slightly more "grown out" than the right side.
My work does not involve photographs; everything is generated by a computer. The used programs are mainly written by me and patterns and colors are often the result of endlessly trying other settings.
Upon request, colors and shapes can be customized to your liking...
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