Bonsai

UP and DOWN arrows grow or shrink the tree.

LEFT and RIGHT arrows cycle through the presets

YOU CAN CLICK THE "SHOW GENOME" BUTTON TO DISPLAY THE GENOME OF THE CURRENT STAGE. HOWEVER SOME TREES' GENOMES ARE SO LARGE YOU MAY RUN INTO PERFORMANCE ISSUES.

This is a visualization of Lindenmayer Systems or "L-Systems" which is an algorithmic system created by botanist Aristid Lindenmayer around 1968 while studying plant growth.  This visualization explores 6 of the L-System rulesets listed in "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf. It's super interesting to me and I highly recommend you check it out!