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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
The patterns on the shells of tropical sea snails are not only compellingly beautiful but also tell a tale of biological development. The decorative patterns are records of their own genesis, which follows laws like those of dune formation or the spread of a flu epidemic. Hans Meinhardt has analyzed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | The Virtual Laboratory
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Shell patterns - a natural picture book to study dynamic systems and biological pattern formation
- Pattern formation by local self-enhancement and long range inhibition
- Oscillations and traveling waves
- Superposition of stable and periodic patterns
- Crossings, meshwork of oblique lines and staggered dots: the combined action of two antagonists
- Branch initiation by global control
- The big problem: two or more time-dependent patterns that interfere with each other
- Triangles
- Parallel lines with tongues
- Shell models in three dimensions
- The computer programs
- Pattern formation in the development of higher organisms
- Pattern formation in development in which shell-related mechanisms are implicated.