Lindenmayer Systems

Release on 2012-12-06 | by Grzegorz Rozenberg

To be just, that movie, despite its shortcomings, was probably the first to point out a potential of L systems, that is, to serve as a formal tool for computer animation. Since then, L systems have been considered and used for computer ...

Author: Grzegorz Rozenberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783642581175
Category: Computers
Page: 514
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L systems are language-theoretic models for developmental biology. They wereintroduced in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989) and have proved to be among the most beautiful examples of interdisciplinary science, where work in one area induces fruitful ideas and results in other areas. L systemsare based on relational and set-theoretic concepts, which are more suitable for the discrete and combinatorial structures of biology than mathematical models based on calculus or statistics. L systems have stimulated new work not only in the realistic simulation of developing organisms but also in the theory of automata and formal languages, formal power series, computer graphics, and combinatorics of words. This book contains research papers by almost all leading authorities and by many of the most promising young researchers in the field. The 28 contributions are organized in sections on basic L systems, computer graphics, graph grammars and map L systems, biological aspects and models, and variations and generalizations of L systems. The introductory paper by Lindenmayer and J}rgensen was written for a wide audience and is accessible to the non-specialist reader. The volume documents the state of the art in the theory of L systems and their applications. It will interest researchers and advanced students in theoretical computer science and developmental biology as well as professionals in computer graphics.

Language: en
Pages: 514

Lindenmayer Systems

Authors: Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa

Categories: Computers

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Language: en
Pages: 122

Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants

Authors: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, James Hanan

Categories: Mathematics

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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