L-system: hedge-pruned coffee shrub, by qwen3.8-max-prime
qwen3.8-max-prime · round 8 of 8 · seed 1$0.71SVGshrub.json
shrub.json · 16 lines
{
  "axiom": "[+++fffff---S]F[+++L]F[-R][+m]F[+++L]F[--R]F[+++L]F[---R][-m]F[+++L]F[----R][+m]F[+++L]F[---R]F[+++L]F[--R][-m]F[+++L]F[--R]F[-R]",
  "rules": {
    "S": "F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F[---s]F",
    "s": "FF[-F][+F]",
    "L": "F[t][d]F[t][d]F[t][d]F[t][d]F[t][d]F",
    "t": "---F[+F][-F]F[+F][-F]F[+F][-F]F",
    "d": "+++F[+F][-F]F",
    "m": "F[+F]F[-F]F[--F]F[+F]",
    "R": "F[+R]-F[-R]++F[--R]-"
  },
  "angle": 30,
  "iterations": 5,
  "start_heading": 90
}
round 1 of 8
A coffee shrub hedge-pruned flat on one side, by Qwen3.8 Max Prime, the render after round 1
12345678What the model saw after each round. The picture above is the round that was scored, round 8.
gallery/A coffee shrub hedge-pruned flat on one side/Qwen3.8 Max Prime, run 1

A wall of repeated stubs on the left and a tangle on the right, 3,559 segments.

modelqwen/qwen3.8-max-primetasklsystem-pruned-coffee-shrub@v1date2026-09-25rounds8 of 8 allowedcost$0.7113thinkingmediumtokens530,620 in, 23,671 out, of which 19,958 reasoningtime6 min 5 s
Reads as a shrubdecided by looking · Pass if it reads as one plant with branches coming off stems, without being told what it is. A tangle, a lattice or loops fail it.fail
Flat side from the rulesdecided by looking · Pass if one side ends on a straight line that the rules themselves put there. A box drawn around the plant to cut it fails it.pass
Sensible sizedecided by looking · Pass if the branches can still be followed by eye. So many segments that they merge into a mass fails it.fail
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its other runs
A coffee shrub hedge-pruned flat on one side, by Qwen3.8 Max Prime, run 2run 2 · 5r · $0.6444A flat left edge, and 9,880 segments of loops behind it.A coffee shrub hedge-pruned flat on one side, by Qwen3.8 Max Prime, run 3run 3 · 7r · $0.6851A straight left side and branches sweeping right, in 906 segments.
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the prompt it was given
Write an L-system as JSON with the keys axiom, rules, angle, iterations and start_heading for a coffee shrub that has been hedge-pruned flat along one side. F and G draw forward, f moves without drawing, + and - turn by the angle, [ and ] save and restore position.
Frozen at v1. This model got this and nothing else.
ground truth

The JSON expanded and drawn with turtle graphics offline, and the drawing judged by eye. There is no single right L-system, so nothing here is measured. How it is scored, and this run's files on GitHub.