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Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (79)) by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, James Hanan; with contributions by A. Lindenmayer, F.D. Fracchia, K. Krithivasan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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1-systems are a mathematical formalism which was proposed by Aristid 1indenmayer in 1968 as a foundation for an axiomatic theory of develop­ ment. The notion promptly attracted the attention of computer scientists, who investigated 1-systems from the viewpoint of formal language theory. This theoretical line of research was pursued very actively in the seventies, resulting in over one thousand publications. A different research direction was taken in 1984 by Alvy Ray Smith, who proposed 1-systems as a tool for synthesizing realistic images of plants and pointed out the relationship between 1-systems and the concept of fractals introduced by Benoit Mandel­ brot. The work by Smith inspired our studies of the application of 1-systems to computer graphics. Originally, we were interested in two problems: • Can 1-systems be used as a realistic model of plant species found in nature? • Can 1-systems be applied to generate images of a wide class of fractals? It turned out that both questions had affirmative answers. Subsequently we found that 1-systems could be applied to other areas, such as the generation of tilings, reproduction of a geometric art form from East India, and synthesis of

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Author

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, James Hanan; with contributions by A. Lindenmayer, F.D. Fracchia, K. Krithivasan

Publisher

Springer-verlag Berlin And Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. K;

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642613173

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Updated

2026-03-24