Przemysław Prusinkiewicz

Przemysław (Przemek) Prusinkiewicz [ˈpʂɛmɛk pruɕiŋˈkjevit͡ʂ][1] is a Polish computer scientist who advanced the idea that Fibonacci numbers in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints on free groups, specifically as certain Lindenmayer grammars.

[citation needed] Prusinkiewicz received the 1997 SIGGRAPH Computer 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 in 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.

"[4] Prusinkiewicz's work was informed by that of the Hungarian biologist Aristid Lindenmayer[4] who developed the theory of L-systems in 1968.