Figure 3.

Illustration of building the polymer from symbols of the current L-system state. (a) The backbone of the interpretation process are structural (symbol m represents monomer) and binding symbols (symbol g represents binding between two monomers in predefined direction). The overall look of the final polymer is dependent on the visualization of structural symbols and their placement based on the property of binding symbol. If the binding symbol is defining linear conformation between the two monomers, linear structure will assemble (b). The conformation with different orientation can create helices of different radii and helicities (c).