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BL
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760911
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b580884
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| Main Entry
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Hans Meinhardt ; with contributions and images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler.
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| Title & Author
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The algorithmic beauty of sea shells\ Hans Meinhardt ; with contributions and images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler.
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| Publication Statement
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Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1995.
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| Series Statement
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Virtual laboratory.
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| Page. NO
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(xi, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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| ISBN
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3662131358
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: 3662131374
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: 9783662131350
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: 9783662131374
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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Coquillages -- Simulation par ordinateur.
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Pattern formation (Biology) -- Computer simulation.
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Shells -- Computer simulation.
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| LC Classification
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QL403.H367 1995
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Deborah R Fowler
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Hans Meinhardt
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Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
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