The Geometrical Beauty of Plants

• Main Author: Gielis, Johan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Atlantis Press : Imprint: Atlantis Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Computer graphics.; Plant science.; Botany.; Mathematical physics.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Computer Graphics.

This book focuses on the origin of the Gielis curves, surfaces and transformations in the plant sciences. It is shown how these transformations, as a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem, play an essential role in plant morphology and development. New insights show how plants can be understood...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Universal Natural Shapes
• 2.Towards a geometrical theory of morphogenesis
• 3.-1,-2,-3......,Understand The Legacy
• 4.Lamé curves and surfaces
• 5.Gielis curves, surfaces and transformations
• 6.Pythagorean-compact. - 7.Generalized intrinsic and extrinsic lengths in submanifolds.