Seashells: the plainness and beauty of their mathematical description




Below, by clicking in the pictures, you may see examples of the kind of shells that can be generated with this model and that illustrate the effects of the variation of the various parameters in the growth of the shell. They were made with the help of the software Mathematica.


Index of examples


See stereoscopic images of these examples in the mathematics project ATRACTOR

28 Aug 03:36:18 2008/ Jorge Picado

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