Morphospace: Measurement, modeling, mathematics, and meaning

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 54-81

  Khiripet, N ^a   Viruchpintu, R ^a   Maneewattanapluk, J ^a   Spangenberg, J ^b   Jungck, J R ^c  

^a NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BELOIT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D tree visualization, education; Allometry; computational geometry; convex hulls; creative commons; fractals; graph grammars; Lindenmayer systems; morphospace; multivariate multidimensional modeling; plant architecture

Indexed keywords

3D TREE VISUALIZATION, EDUCATION; ALLOMETRY; CONVEX HULL; CREATIVE COMMONS; GRAPH GRAMMAR; LINDENMAYER SYSTEM; MORPHOSPACE; MULTIVARIATE-MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; DATA VISUALIZATION; ECOLOGY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; FRACTAL DIMENSION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LAMINAR FLOW; PLANT EXTRACTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 79960937043     PISSN: 09735348     EISSN: 17606101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/mmnp/20116202     Document Type: Article

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