Finally, an update on this thing! Instead of doing actual work, I've been messing with more tree-generating tools.
The sketch-based generators still required too much human input for my tastes, so I wrote a generator that spits out trees with a single click.
The trees in the gif are straight out of the generator, no manual tweaks at all. Not perfect, but not bad at all for requiring one click to make.
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