月明星稀，烏鵲南飛。曹操【短歌行】
The moon is bright and stars are few,
Southward the ravens flew.
－ A Short-Song Ballad by Cao Cao (155~220 AD).
This work is created with two types of fractals:
an L-system fractal (the tree) and a logistic map chaos (the river).
三五之夜，明月半牆，桂影斑駁，風移影動， 珊珊可愛。歸有光【項脊軒志】
On the night of full moon, when the moonlight reached the walls
and the cassias shed a dappled shade which moved with the wind,
one knew then what bliss was.
－ The XiangJi Studio, by Youguang Gui (1506~1571).
Translated by David Pollard in his book, The Chinese Essay: An Anthology.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-chinese-essay/9780231121194
This work is created with an L-system tree.
今宵酒醒何處？楊柳岸、曉風殘月。柳永【雨霖鈴】
Where will I be when I recover from insobriety tonight?
Perhaps somewhere along a willowy bank, in a breeze under a waning moon.
－ Lyrics to Tinkling Heavy Rain, by Yong Liu (984~1053).
A translation can be found here:
https://28utscprojects.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/s038/
This willow is created with a set of parabola equations.
料得年年腸斷處，明月夜，短松崗。蘇軾【江城子】
Year after year will it break my heart?
The moonlit grave, the stubby pines.
－ Lyrics to the Melody of a River Town, by Shi Su (1036~1101)
The translated poem can be found in https://tinyurl.com/y8xgpr9u
The pine tree is a fractal generated using the iterated function system (IFS).
