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String Rewriting System


A substitution system in which rules are used to operate on a string consisting of letters of a certain alphabet. String rewriting systems are also variously known as rewriting systems, reduction systems, or term rewriting systems. 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 Sierpiński carpet.


See also

Rabbit Sequence, Substitution System

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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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Weisstein, Eric W. "String Rewriting System." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/StringRewritingSystem.html

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