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Visual Models of Plant Development

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In these notes we survey applications of L-systems to the modeling of plants, with an emphasis on the results obtained since the comprehensive presentation of this area in The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants [99]. The new developments include:

  • extensions to the L-system formalism that increase its expressive power as needed for practical biological applications

  • introduction of programming constructs that enhance the use of L-systems as a language for describing developmental algorithms and as input for simulation programs, and

  • new biological applications of L-systems.

There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

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Prusinkiewicz, P., Hammel, M., Hanan, J., Měch, R. (1997). Visual Models of Plant Development. In: Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Handbook of Formal Languages. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59126-6_9

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