Snub polyhedra and organic growth

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2008.0219MaRDI QIDQ3561853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date 19 May 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2008.0219

zbMATH Keywords

growthpolyhedrasnubvirusYin-Yang method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Cell biology (92C37)

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