| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 423 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Growth and Form. Paradigms of Pattern Formation: Towards a Computational Theory of Morphogenesis / Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz. Growth and Form of Sponges and Corals in a Moving Fluid / Jaap A. Kaandorp and Peter M.A. Sloot. From Pseudo-Random Numbers to Stochastic Growth Models and Texture Images / Leonid P. Yaroslavsky. Crystal Growth, Biological Call Growth, and Geometry / James W. Cannon, William J. Floyd and Walter R. Parry. Recent Results on Aperiodic Wang Tilings / Jarkko Kari -- Reaction-Diffusion and Beyond. Biological Pattern Formation as a Complex Dynamic Phenomenon / Hans Meinhardt. Andronov Bifurcations and Sea Shell Patterns / M. Argentina and P. Coullet. Rational and Irrational Angles in Phyllotaxis / Y. Couder and S. Douady |
| Summary |
Half a billion years of evolution have turned the eye into an unbelievable pattern detector. Everything we perceive comes in delightful multicolored forms. Now, in the age of science, we want to comprehend what and why we see. Two dozen outstanding biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, computer scientists and mathematicians met at the Institut d'Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. They expounded their views on the physical, biological and physiological mechanisms creating the tapestry of patterns we see in molecules, plants, insects, seashells, and even the human |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pattern formation (Biology)
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NATURE -- Reference.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
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Pattern formation (Biology)
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Musterbildung
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Développement des formes (biologie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carbone, Alessandra
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Gromov, Mikhael, 1943-
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Prusinkiewicz, Przemyslaw, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9789812817723 |
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9812817727 |
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