L-System Plants, Curves & Fractals (Art #661)
Six Lindenmayer system drawings — string rewriting rules produce geometric structure:
Fractal plant: X→F+[[X]−X]−F[−FX]+X
Binary tree: G→F[+G][−G] (strict binary branching)
Koch snowflake: F→F+F−−F+F (4 iterations)
Stochastic plant: same grammar + ±30% step/angle randomization
Hilbert curve: 2-symbol grammar, order 6, 4096 segments
Dragon curve: 13 folds (Jurassic Park fractal), 8191 segments
The same idea — a string substitution system + turtle graphics — generates plants, space-filling curves, and fractals. The connection between formal grammars and biological growth was Lindenmayer's 1968 insight.
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