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L-system is a grammar-like formalism introduced to simulate the development of organisms. The L-system grammar can be viewed as a sort of genetic information that will be used to generate a specific structure. However, throughout development, the string (genetic information) that will effectively be used to ‘draw’ the phenotype of an individual is a result of the derivation of the L-system grammar. This work investigates the effect of applying a genetic programming approach to evolve derived L-systems instead of evolving the Lsystem grammar. The crossing over of plants from different species results in hybrid plants resembling a ‘Frankstree’, i.e. plants resultant from phenotypically different parents that present unusual body structures.
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Bonfim, D.M., de Castro, L.N. (2005). FranksTree: A Genetic Programming Approach to Evolve Derived Bracketed L-Systems. In: Wang, L., Chen, K., Ong, Y.S. (eds) Advances in Natural Computation. ICNC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11539087_168
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