L-System Plant
Lindenmayer system — fractal plant
Axiom X with rules X→F+[[X]-X]-F[-FX]+X and F→FF, six rewrite iterations rendered by a 25° turtle — the canonical Algorithmic Beauty of Plants figure, every branch a symbol expansion.
Paper / citationAristid Lindenmayer, “Mathematical models for cellular interactions in development,” J. Theor. Biol. 18 (1968); Prusinkiewicz & Lindenmayer, The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (Springer, 1990).
https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193(68)90079-9
https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193(68)90079-9
◈Made by real computation — every vertex is produced by the algorithm’s own math, integrated or iterated from the paper’s equations. No tracing, no decoration, no image model.