The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells
The patterns on the shells of tropical sea snails are not only compellingly beautiful but also tell a tale of biological development. The decorative patterns are records of their own genesis, which follows laws like those of dune formation or the spread o
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Hans Meinhardt
The Aigorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells Third Edition
With Contributions and Images by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Deborah R. Fowler With 120 Illustrations, 107 in Color, and CD-ROM
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Hans Meinhardt Max-Planck-Institut for Developmental Biology Spemannstr. 35 72076 Tübingen Germany hans. meinhardttetueoingen.mpg.de
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It has turned out to be impossible ... to get at the meaning of these marks ... They refuse themselves to our understanding, and will, painfully enough, continue to do so. But when I say refuse, that is merely the negative of reveal - and that Nature painted these ciphers, to wh ich we lack the key, merely for ornament on the shell of her creature, nobody can persuade me. Ornament and meaning always run alongside each other; the old writings too served for both ornament and communication. Nobody can tell me that there is nothing to communicate here. That it is an inaccessible communication, to plunge into this contradiction, is also a pleasure. Thomas
Mann ,
Doktor Faustus,
III.
Chapter:
Jonathan Leverkühn contemplating a pattern on a New Caledonien sea shell. After the translation from the German by H . T. Lowe-Porter, Pengu in Books.
Preface to the third edition New in the third edition is that many of the simulations are supplied on the accompanying CD -ROM in the HTML format. Thus, the highly dynamic behavior of the int
