Lindenmayer System Slides

Recently I gave a presentation on a paper titled Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants which is about Lindenmayer systems and how you can use them to model plants. Unfortunately I don't have a video of the talk, but I do have the slides I made for the talk so I thought I would share them here.

It's a bit incomplete without the rest of the presentation but eventually I'd like to make a proper post about this topic that should be more complete.

Here's a brief overview of the talk to give a little context to the slides:

Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) are a method from computer science's formal language theory for specifying ways to rewrite text strings, similar to formal grammars. By combining the strings generated from the L-systems with graphical techniques such as turtle graphics we can create a series of images that "grow" from one generation to the next, and which often have self similar properties. These properties make L-systems very useful for creating fractals and modeling plants such as Rose Campion.