Patterns: Physical Principles of Biological Patterns
or what Natural Selection might also be constrained by, in addition to DNA,
Protein Information
A summer school lecture and movie session on spatial patterns in biological
systems and exploring their physical basis.
Watching List
- Bird
A. (2015) Apoiological: mathematical speculations about bees. Part 1:
Honeycomb Geometry
- Spherical
Spiral and loxodromes from MATHEMATICA on mathworld.wolfram.com
- On J.T.
Bonner and Dicytostelium discoideum: A short documentary
- Time-lapse movie of
the aggregation of Dicytostelium: Thomas Gregor Lab, Princeton
Reading List
- Bonner. The Social Amoebae. The Biology of Cellular Slime Moulds.
- C. V. Boys. Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them. [Book
from arvindguptatoys]
- P. Ball. (2001) The Self-Made Tapestry. Pattern Formation in Nature. [Amazon]:
Available in the IISER P Library
- The
Math and the Art of M. C. Escher: Part 1: Tesselation by Polygons
- Regular
tesselations on Wolfram.mathematica
- Dudte
et al. (2016) Programming curvature using origami tessellations. Nature
Materials 15, 583–588. doi:10.1038/nmat4540. Work from L.
Mahadevan's lab
Doing List
- Logarithmic spirals: Mathematica,
MATLAB code (source)
Updated: 2016/6/8, CAA