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String Rewriting

A Substitution Map in which rules are used to operate on a string consisting of letters of a certain alphabet. String rewriting is a particularly useful technique for generating successive iterations of certain types of Fractals, such as the Box Fractal, Cantor Dust, Cantor Square Fractal, and Sierpinski Carpet.

See also Rabbit Sequence, Substitution Map


References

Peitgen, H.-O. and Saupe, D. (Eds.). ``String Rewriting Systems.'' §C.1 in The Science of Fractal Images. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 273-275, 1988.

Wagon, S. ``Recursion via String Rewriting.'' §6.2 in Mathematica in Action. New York: W. H. Freeman, pp. 190-196, 1991.




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1999-05-26