Evotree Scroll A

In 1968 Aristid Lindenmayer introduced a model of plant development to the world. His "L-system" is a formal grammar, a language to describe branching growth.

This image is the expression of a statement in such a language. It was grown from a single point by a process of recursive substitution. The drawing technique is very much like "turtle graphics", where a point is given instructions about where to move and what color to draw by the L-system.

This video loop is 4 minutes and 48 seconds long, at 1080 by 1080 pixels and 30 frames per second.