A String Rewriting system which can be used to generate Fractals with Dimension between 1 and 2. The term L-System is often used as an abbreviation.
See also Arrowhead Curve, Dragon Curve Exterior Snowflake, Fractal, Hilbert Curve, Koch Snowflake, Peano Curve, Peano-Gosper Curve, Sierpinski Curve, String Rewriting
References
Dickau, R. M. ``Two-dimensional L-systems.''
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/advanced/robertd/lsys2d.html.
Prusinkiewicz, P. and Hanan, J. Lindenmayer Systems, Fractal, and Plants. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.
Prusinkiewicz, P. and Lindenmayer, A. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
Stevens, R. T. Fractal Programming in C. New York: Holt, 1989.
Wagon, S. ``Recursion via String Rewriting.'' §6.2 in Mathematica in Action.
New York: W. H. Freeman, pp. 190-196, 1991.