Przemysław (Przemek) Prusinkiewicz[ˈpʂɛmɛk pruɕiŋˈkjevit͡ʂ][1] is a Polishcomputer scientist who advanced the idea thatFibonacci numbers in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints onfree groups, specifically as certainLindenmayer grammars.[citation needed] Prusinkiewicz's main work is on themodeling of plant growth through suchgrammars.
in 1978 Prusinkiewicz received hisPhD fromWarsaw University of Technology .
As of 2008 he was a professor ofComputer Science at theUniversity of Calgary.[citation needed]
Prusinkiewicz received the 1997SIGGRAPHComputer Graphics Achievement Award for his work.[2]
In 2006, Michael Hensel examined the work of Prusinkiewicz and his collaborators - the Calgary team - in an article published inArchitectural Design. Hensel argued that the Calgary team's computational plant models or "virtual plants" which culminated in software they developed capable of modeling various plant characteristics,[3]: 14 could provide important lessons for architectural design. Architects would learn from "the self-organisation processes underlying the growth of living organisms" and the Calgary team's work uncovered some of that potential.[3] Their computational models allowed for a "quantitative understanding of developmental mechanisms" and had the potential to "lead to a synthetic understanding of the interplay between various aspects of development."[4]
Prusinkiewicz's work was informed by that of the Hungarian biologistAristid Lindenmayer[4] who developed the theory ofL-systems in 1968.[4] Lindenmayer used L-systems to describe the behaviour of plant cells and to model the growth processes, plant development and the branching architecture of plant development.[4][5][6][7]
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