Tag: biology

  • L-Systems and the Language of Reality.

    L-Systems and the Language of Reality.

    From Branching Trees to STrelia: A Grammar of Space and Time In 1968, biologist Aristid Lindenmayer introduced a deceptively simple idea: a way to model the growth of plants using a symbolic rule system. A few letters. A few transformations. And from those, the spiraling of ferns, the branching of trees, the fractal dance of nature emerged.…