Description
Book SynopsisShell patterns - a natural picture book to study dynamic systems and biological pattern formation.- Pattern formation by local self-enhancement and long range inhibition.- Oscillations and traveling waves.- Superposition of stable and periodic patterns.- Crossings, meshwork of oblique lines and staggered dots: the combined action of two antagonists.- Branch initiation by global control.- The big problem: two or more time-dependent patterns that interfere with each other.- Triangles.- Parallel lines with tongues.- Shell models in three dimensions.- The computer programs.- Pattern formation in the development of higher organisms.- Pattern formation in development in which shell-related mechanisms are implicated.
