Aristid Lindenmayer

Aristid Lindenmayer ( born November 17, 1925 in Budapest, † 30 October 1989) was a Hungarian theoretical biologist.

In 1968 he developed a formal language as the basis of an axiomatic theory of biological development. More recently, the Lindenmayer system or L- system were mentioned systems application in computer graphics in the generation of fractals and in the realistic modeling of plants.

Publications

  • Aristid Lindenmayer: Mathematical models for cellular interaction in development. In: J. Theoret. Biology. 18, 1968, 280 - 315
  • Przemysław Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory). Springer - Verlag, 1990, ISBN 0-387-97297-8. (English, PDF files available for download)
  • Theoretical biologist
  • Hungarian
  • Born in 1925
  • Died in 1989
  • Man
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