🌿 L-System
An L-system (Lindenmayer system) is a formal grammar consisting of an initial symbol string and a set of rewriting rules applied repeatedly and in parallel to every symbol, originally devised by biologist Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968 to model plant growth. Interpreting the resulting strings as turtle-graphics commands produces realistic branching plants and fractal trees.
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For a fuller technical treatment, see the Generative Art Algorithms — Fractals (L-Systems) reference on MySimulator.
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