Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1990)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1990, 27 March 1996

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1990)
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Part of Series
Virtual Laboratory
Print Length
228 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
27 Mar 1996
ISBN-10
0387946764
ISBN-13
9780387946764

Description

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 growth processes 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.

Product Details

Authors:
Przemyslaw PrusinkiewiczAristid Lindenmayer
Book Edition:
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1990
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
27 March 1996
Dimensions:
27.86 x 21.62 x 1.3 cm
ISBN-10:
0387946764
ISBN-13:
9780387946764
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
228
Publisher:
Weight:
780.18 gm

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