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Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel, and Radomir Mech
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
- Abstract:
- Rapid progress in the modeling of biological
structures and simulation of their development has occurred over the last
few years. It has been coupled with the visualization of simulation
results, which has led to a better understanding of morphogenesis and given
rise to new procedural techniques for realistic image synthesis. This
hypertext document reviews models of morphogenesis with a significant
visual component, which were developed or reproduced in the Computer
Science Departments at the University of Regina (1987 - August, 1991) and
the University of Calgary (September, 1991 - present). The material is
based on papers [Pru1993,
Pru1994a], which cover the
topic in more depth and include more extensive lists of references.
Keywords: morphogenesis, simulation and visualization of biological
phenomena, developmental model, reaction-diffusion, diffusion-limited
growth, cellular automaton, L-system, realistic image synthesis.
If a natural object or organism demonstrates consistency
of form [...], such symmetry is the consequence of Something rather
than Nothing.
Adrian D. Bell [Bel1985]
Introduction
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