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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 book, the author 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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Book category Książki po angielsku Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
• Author: Hans Meinhardt, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Deborah R. Fowler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 269
• EAN: 9783540921417
• ISBN: 3540921419
• ID: 01571132
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 1136 g
• Dimensions: 285 × 220 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. August 2009

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