Fractal And Lindenmeyer System Research
Further reading about fractals, L-systems and the modelling of morphology in organisms
Inspired by by a post on Processingblogs.com I started some research about fractals and L-Systems in particular.
“An L-system is a formal grammar most famously used to model the growth processes of plant development, though able to model the morphology of a variety of organisms. L-systems can also be used to generate self-similar fractals such as iterated function systems. …” source: Wikipedia.org
Useful links and resources
- Fractal at wikipedia.org . german
- List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension - from Wikipedia
- Fractals, Chaos by Paul Bourke
- Search for fractals at mathworld
- Fractals list at Mathcurve.com
- Fractal art - from Wikipedia
- L-system at wikipedia.org . german
- L-systems page in the Fractint manual
- L-systems by David J. Wright
- Fractint L-System True Fractals - a tutorial by William McWorter
- Lindenmeyer Systems at Joshuadavis.com
- L-system build with Processing (source: Robotacid.com)
- Fractals and Cellular Automata by Daniel Shiffman
- Pattern and Visualization: L-systems by Joost Rekveld
- Fractale Lindenmayer-System as Java-Applet
- Fractals and Recursion - in Nature of Code
- Exploring L-Systems with Drawing and Sound by Geraldine Sarmiento
- Algorithmic Botany at the University of Calgary
Image source: Diffusion-limited aggregation in 3 dimensions by Paul Bourke
Posted: March 29th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Hi Christian, this is another great resource for LSystems.
Posted: March 31st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Hey Andreas, a bunch of top-class papers - sounds really promising. Thanks for the link - added algorithmicbotany.org to the list.
Posted: April 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
[...] the TwistedBoxes sketch by the use of modified L-system algorithms. High-res stills are available in the Processing set at [...]