{"id":220,"date":"2019-07-09T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/?p=220"},"modified":"2019-07-09T10:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T10:43:58","slug":"visit-to-prof-jim-hanan-opens-some-exciting-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/2019\/07\/09\/visit-to-prof-jim-hanan-opens-some-exciting-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Visit to Prof Jim Hanan opens some exciting opportunities[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]In May 2019, Dave Drew visited <a href=\"https:\/\/qaafi.uq.edu.au\/profile\/156\/jim-hanan\">Prof Jim Hanan<\/a> at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia, to discuss opportunities to work together on aspects of the Hans Merensky EucXylo Chair.<\/p>\n<p>Jim has a large amount of experience in using L-systems (Lindenmayer systems) to model plant development.\u00a0 A Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar and could present a very useful approach in terms of modelling <em>Eucalyptus<\/em> tree form (see image below).\u00a0 \u00a0He also has experience in modelling &#8220;cellular&#8221; systems of various kinds, using tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/ccl.northwestern.edu\/netlogo\/\">NetLogo<\/a> to explore interactions between individual elements.\u00a0 Dave and Jim agreed to work towards student exchange and mutual visits centred around research in the EucXylo Chair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-221 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2019\/07\/Fractal_weeds-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2019\/07\/Fractal_weeds.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2019\/07\/Fractal_weeds-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2019\/07\/Fractal_weeds-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/files\/2019\/07\/Fractal_weeds-640x375.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]In May 2019, Dave Drew visited Prof Jim Hanan at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia, to discuss opportunities to work together on aspects of the Hans Merensky EucXylo Chair. Jim has a large amount of experience in using L-systems (Lindenmayer systems) to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/fmm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}