Rabbit: L-system Production Rules

Hi, can anyone help me understand how to read the production rules of Turtle's L-system in the Rabbit plug-in?

i know the basics of the rules but i can't find a tutorial or explanation how to read them.

Especially when there are multiple rules acting at the same time it gets really confusing.

For example:

Rule 1 = 2FF[+1]

Rule 2 = F[1]-2

From what (i think) i understand in general,

Step 1 reads rule 1.

Step 2 reads rule 1 then rule 2.

Step 3 reads rule 1 then rule 2 then rule 1

Step 4 reads rule 1 then rule 2 then rule 1 then rule 2...

But in this case rule 2 involves rule 1. How do i read it?

Another thing is when there are multiple seeds, how does it affect the rules?

For example:

A = 1

1 = F+F

AA = ?

A-A = ?

Hopefully i explained my question clearly.

Help is very much appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by Morphocode on May 9, 2010 at 8:33am

Hi,

we've described the basic principles here:
http://morphocode.com/rabbit-l-systems/

seed: A
rules:
A = AB
B = BA

n=0: A (the axiom)
n=1: AB (A is rewritten according to the rule A=AB)
n=2: ABBA (A -> AB, B -> BA) -> in result you get AB BA
n=3: ABBABAAB (A->AB;B->BA;B->BA;A->AB) result: AB BA BA AB
n=4: ABBABAABBAABABBA (etc. etc.)

You can find some more details in 'The Algorithmic beauty of plants' - it is freely available as a PDF:
http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/abop/abop.pdf

Best

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