\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{luamplib} \begin{document} \mplibtextextlabel{enable} \begin{mplibcode} input colorbrewer-rgb r = 0.75; theta = 17; vardef make_tree(expr bar) = save a; numeric a; a = abs(point 1 of bar - point 0 of bar); cutdraw bar withpen pencircle scaled (a/8); if a > 5: save s; pair s; s = 1/32 a * r * unitvector(direction 1 of bar) rotated 90; make_tree( bar shifted - point 0 of bar shifted s scaled (r + 1/16 normaldeviate) rotated (theta + 8 normaldeviate) shifted point 1 of bar ); make_tree( bar shifted - point 0 of bar shifted -s scaled (r + 1/16 normaldeviate) rotated -(theta + 8 normaldeviate) shifted point 1 of bar ); fi enddef; beginfig(1); for i=1 upto 4: picture T; T = image(make_tree(origin -- 40 up)); draw T shifted (170i, 0); endfor endfig; \end{mplibcode} \end{document}