The Loewner driving function of trajectory arcs of quadratic differentials

We obtain a first order differential equation for the driving function of the chordal Loewner differential equation in the case where the domain is slit by a curve which is a trajectory arc of a certain type of quadratic differential. In particular this includes the case when the curve is a path on the square, triangle or hexagonal lattice in the upper half-plane or, indeed, in any domain with boundary on the lattice. We also demonstrate how we use this to calculate the driving function numerically. Equivalent results for other variants of the Loewner differential equation are also obtained.