Metric-Driven Grammars and Morphogenesis

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Brendan Lane, and Adam Runions
University of Calgary

Abstract

Expansion of space, rather than the progress of time, drives many developmental processes in plants. Metric-driven grammars provide a formal method for specifying and simulating such processes. We illustrate their operation using cell division patterns, phyllotactic patterns, and several aspects of leaf development.

Reference

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Brendan Lane, and Adam Runions. Metric-Driven Grammars and Morphogenesis. In Language, Life, Limits: Proceedings of CiE 2014. pp. 347-351, 2014.

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