Starting a new chapter, of sorts. I have been researching the structure and patterns of plants. Based on the studies of biologist Lindenmayer the patterns of organic forms are easy to identify, the more the organism grown the more complex the patterns become. Lindenmayer’s systems, or L-systems for short, are also quite popular for the generation of artificial life.
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Round acrylic painting made with the principles of the L-system nature patterns.
2020
Wood, Acrylic paint.
The recurring pattern of Lindenmayer’s system becomes repetitive, or copying of previous patterns creating fractal shapes and are thereby identify as the L-system.
L-system grammars are very similar to the semi-Thue grammar (see Chomsky hierarchy). L-systems are now commonly known as parametric L systems, defined as a tuple
G = (V, ω, P),
where
V (the alphabet) is a set of symbols containing both elements that can be replaced (variables) and those which cannot be replaced ("constants" or "terminals")