L-Systems

Created at
30 September 2023
Last modified
28 January 2025
Status
🍃 Unspecified

Or Lindenmayer systems, named after biologist Aristid Lindenmayer. This grammar defines a geomtric structure, string, or similar using a combination of a starting structure and a series of iterable rules to apply when growing it.

While L-Systems were initially developed "to provide a formal description of the development of [yeast and filamentous fungi]", they can also be used to model the morphology of all kinds of organisms and also to generate self-similar fractals.