Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!herald.usask.ca!skorpio!jones From: jones@skorpio.Usask.ca (W. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Info on L-systems wanted Keywords: L-systems fractals Message-ID: <1990Nov14.002040.18882@herald.usask.ca> Date: 14 Nov 90 00:20:40 GMT References: <1990Nov5.182451.3591@hellgate.utah.edu> <1990Nov6.105225.22702@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Sender: news@herald.usask.ca (USENET News System) Reply-To: jones@skorpio.Usask.ca Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Lines: 37 In article <1990Nov6.105225.22702@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume) writes: >In article <1990Nov5.182451.3591@hellgate.utah.edu> thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) writes: >>I think the defacto reference on L-systems will become: >> _The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants_, >> Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz >>This was just published this year by Springer-Verlag and is written by >>one of the most authoritative researchers into L-systems (IMHO) since >>Lindenmayer. > >If by "defacto reference" you mean the application of L-systems to the visual >modelling of plants, you're probably right (no disrespect intended). Don't >overlook the fact that L-systems have a well-established theory with >applications to many areas. For the basic theory, see the badly-titled book: > >Arto Salomaa, _Jewels of Formal Language Theory_, Computer Science Press, >Rockville, Maryland, 1981. Prusinkiewicz isn't connected to Usenet and asked that I mention a few things. It should be remembered that the late Aristid Lindenmayer is a co-author of the plant book. (ISBN 0-387-97297-8, BTW). Salomaa's book covers L-systems to some extent but there are also two monographs devoted solely to the topic: - G. Herman and G. Rozenberg. Developmental systems and languages, North- Holland, Amsterdam 1975. - G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa. The mathematical theory of L-systems, Academic Press, New York 1980, ISBN 0-125-97140-0. There is also a collection of papers, published on the occasion of Lindenmayer's 60th birthday, which survey the current status of the field: - G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa, eds. The book of L, Springer-Verlag, New York 1985, ISBN 0-387-16022-1.