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Artificial Life
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(commonly called a-life) is the term applied
collectively to attempts being made to develop mathematical models and
computer simulations of the ways in which living organisms develop, grow,
and evolve. Researchers in this burgeoning field hope to gain deeper
insights into the nature of organic lif ....
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....nother important predecessor of a-life research was Dutch biologist
Aristid Lindenmeyer. Interested in the mathematics of plant growth,
Lindenmeyer found in the 1960s that through the use of a few basic
algorithms--now called Lindenmeyer systems, or L-systems--he could model
biochemical processes as well as tracing the development of complex
biological forms such as flowers. Computer-graphics programs now make use
of L-systems to yield realistic three-dimensional images of plants.
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