The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants

Name: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
Brand: Springer
SKU: 9780387946764-B
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By Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

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The beauty of plants has attracted the attention of mathematicians for Mathematics centuries. Conspicuous geometric features such as the bilateral sym and beauty metry of leaves, the rotational symmetry of flowers, and the helical arrangements of scales in pine cones have been studied most exten sively. This focus is reflected in a quotation from Weyl [159, page 3], "Beauty is bound up with symmetry. " This book explores two other factors that organize plant structures and therefore contribute to their beauty. The first is the elegance and relative simplicity of developmental algorithms, that is, the rules which describe plant development in time. The second is self-similarity, char acterized by Mandelbrot [95, page 34] as follows: When each piece of a shape is geometrically similar to the whole, both the shape and the cascade that generate it are called self-similar. This corresponds with the biological phenomenon described by Herman, Lindenmayer and Rozenberg [61]: In many growthprocesses of living organisms, especially of plants, regularly repeated appearances of certain multicel lular structures are readily noticeable. . . . In the case of a compound leaf, for instance, some of the lobes (or leaflets), which are parts of a leaf at an advanced stage, have the same shape as the whole leaf has at an earlier stage. Thus, self-similarity in plants is a result of developmental processes. Growth and By emphasizing the relationship between growth and form, this book form follows a long tradition in biology.

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Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

244

Release Date:

1996-03-27

Publication Date:

1996-03-27

Publisher:

Springer

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0387946764

ISBN13:

9780387946764

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[email protected]

Weight:

607 g

Height:

210 cm

Width:

280 cm

Thickness:

14 cm

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