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  • Which was unfortunate, because in it Lindenmayer sounded a warning: “It is tempting to speculate that…shared towels and locker room facilities might have contributed to MRSA transmission.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Which was unfortunate, because in it Lindenmayer sounded a warning: “It is tempting to speculate that…shared towels and locker room facilities might have contributed to MRSA transmission.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Which was unfortunate, because in it Lindenmayer sounded a warning: “It is tempting to speculate that…shared towels and locker room facilities might have contributed to MRSA transmission.”

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • I don't know if she is the first to try this in SL (I have seen no other, though I should be surprised if no one else has tried to create them), but it seemed a fairly straight forward application of Lindenmayer systems (I may have been born in the Eighteenth Century, but I do keep up with my reading).

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Lindenmayer systems define complex objects by successively replacing parts of a simple initial object using a set of rewriting rules.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • No relation to Linden Lab as far as I know, Lindenmayer systems were conceived in 1968 as a mathematical theory (really just a formal language) of plant development by Hungarian biologist Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989).

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • I don't know if she is the first to try this in SL (I have seen no other, though I should be surprised if no one else has tried to create them), but it seemed a fairly straight forward application of Lindenmayer systems (I may have been born in the Eighteenth Century, but I do keep up with my reading).

    Cartography Young Geoffrion 2007

  • As for specifics, I am sure you will correct your oversite that the “fugu paper” is closely coupled to my fractal modeling going back 17 years fractogene.com/89_fractal/89_fractal.html where I have long provided the “objective measurement of Purkinje cell morphology” reducing “complexity” to levels of fractal hierarchy of e.g. a Lindenmayer-string fractal.

    Another unintelligent move - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Lindenmayer systems define complex objects by successively replacing parts of a simple initial object using a set of rewriting rules.

    Cartography Young Geoffrion 2007

  • No relation to Linden Lab as far as I know, Lindenmayer systems were conceived in 1968 as a mathematical theory (really just a formal language) of plant development by Hungarian biologist Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989).

    Cartography Young Geoffrion 2007

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