LINDENMEYER L-SYSTEM LANGUAGE Language tools have been used to describe the growth of plants. Plants develop from seeds in stages and their development follows general rules about when and where new growth buds from the plant, the shape of flowers etc. Astrid Lindenmayer coded this information into a grammar consiting of encoded rules and produced a compiler program that interpreted ‘sentences’ written using the grammar (rules) and vocabulary (options that the rules permit). Plants were described in this language which was read, parsed and ‘understood’ by the compiler to extract the sentence structure. The compiler then translated this plant description or ‘specification’ into another language - the language of a graphics program that drew the plant. SIMULATION VIDEO By describing not just the adult plant but it entire development it is possible to simulate the growth of plants. This has been widely used in animated movies. Astrid Lindenmaeyer also described the environment as another system which behaved according to rules and coupled the plant and environment models to  simulate plant growth in an environment.
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LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
TOTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GENERATIVE ENGINEERING OF ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE SUPPORT
SIMULATING PLANT GROWTH
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