Generative growth is the result of the computational design seminar by
the Institute of computation design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart. The project is inspired by the growth morphology of the corals, exploring the principals of generative growth and evolutionary computation.

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The logic: A starting point is placed inside a predefined boundary. Within this boundary, a random point is generated and moved towards the starting point. The next point is generated randomly and moved to the closest point in the existing point cloud. In this way, a coral-like geometry is created in different directions.

To achieve better control of the growth direction, obstacles are added inside the boundary. When the closest point to the randomly generated point is too close to an obstacle, the newly generated point is moved. Then its position is rotated in a different direction so that the created path avoids the obstacle.