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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)
by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer
from Springer
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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All the detail you need to produce your own graphical plants 
The beauty of plants has attracted the interest of mathematicians for centuries. Plants have many conspicuous geometric features such as symmetry in their leaves, rotational symmetry in their flowers, and then there are the interesting helical arrangements of pine cone scales. This book examines two factors that organize plant structures and therefore contribute to their beauty. The first is the simple elegance of the rules which describe plant development in relation to time. The second is self-similarity... more info
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Excellent and beautiful book. 
The color plates are quite extraordinary. Knowledge of math helps, but the book pretty much starts at Ground Zero. It is quite useable for those wishing to implement the plant modeling systems described (which is why I purchased it).
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