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Growing Music: Musical Interpretations of L-Systems

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L-systems are parallel generative grammars, used to model plant development, with the results usually interpreted graphically. Music can also be represented by grammars, and it is possible to interpret L-systems musically. We search for simultaneous ‘pleasing’ graphical and musical renderings of L-systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK

    Peter Worth & Susan Stepney

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  8. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  9. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  10. School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UEA Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  11. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Worth, P., Stepney, S. (2005). Growing Music: Musical Interpretations of L-Systems. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32003-6_56

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