Evolving L-Systems in a Competitive Environment

Lindenmayer systems (L-systems) have been developed to model plant growth by repeatedly applying production rules to an initial axiom, and serve as a model for genetically driven growth processes found in nature. A simulation method is proposed to evolve their phenotypic representations through competition in a heterogeneous environment to further expand on this biological analogy. The resulting simulations demonstrate evolution driven by competition, resulting in agents employing strategies similar to those found in nature.