Lindenmayer Systems

L systems are language-theoretic models for developmentalbiology. They wereintroduced in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer(1925-1989) and have proved to be among the most beautifulexamples of interdisciplinary science, where work in onearea induces fruitful ideas and results in other areas. Lsystemsare based on relational and set-theoretic concepts,which are more suitable for the discrete and combinatorialstructures of biology than mathematical models based oncalculus or statistics. L systems have sti