TY - BOOK ID - 77945446 TI - Pattern formation in biology, vision and dynamics AU - Carbone, Alessandra AU - Gromov, Mikhael AU - Prusinkiewicz, Przemyslaw PY - 2000 SN - 9812817727 9789812817723 9810237928 9789810237929 PB - Singapore River Edge, NJ World Scientific DB - UniCat KW - Pattern formation (Biology) KW - Biological pattern formation KW - Developmental biology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945446 AB - Half a billion years of evolution have turned the eye into an unbelievable pattern detector. Everything we perceive comes in delightful multicolored forms. Now, in the age of science, we want to comprehend what and why we see.Two dozen outstanding biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, computer scientists and mathematicians met at the Institut d'Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France. They expounded their views on the physical, biological and physiological mechanisms creating the tapestry of patterns we see in molecules, plants, insects, seashells, and even the human ER -