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The algorithmic beauty of sea shells

(Number (ISBN

3662131358

(Number (ISBN

3662131374

(Number (ISBN

9783662131350

(Number (ISBN

9783662131374

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b580884

Title Proper

The algorithmic beauty of sea shells

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hans Meinhardt ; with contributions and images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer-Verlag

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xi, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Series Title

Virtual laboratory.

Text of Note

Shell patterns as dynamic system --; Pattern formation --; Oscullations and Travelling Waves --; Superposition of stable and periodic patterns --; Meshwork of Oblique lines and staggered dots --; Branch initiation by global control --; The big problem: two or more time-dependent patterns --; Triangles --; Paralled lines with tongues --Shell models in three dimensions --; The computer program.

Text of Note

For centuries scientists have tried to understand the growth and development of multicellular organisms. More recently, with the help of mathematical models and computerized simulations, they have discovered algorithmic patterns and models that seem to describe the dynamic processes in which organisms grow, reproduce, and respond to external factors. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Hans Meinhardt explains and illustrates these structural growth patterns in the case of sea shells. The book delightfully conveys the intuitive appeal and the "touch of magic" in this research. A diskette packaged with the book contains a program that allows the reader to run the simulations on a PC. New patterns can be generated interactively to provide an insight into the process of biological pattern formation.

Coquillages -- Simulation par ordinateur.

Pattern formation (Biology) -- Computer simulation.

Shells -- Computer simulation.

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Book number

Hans Meinhardt ; with contributions and images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler.

Deborah R Fowler

Hans Meinhardt

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

Electronic name

[Book]

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