Phyllotaxis: the mathematical description and modelling of leaf patterns

DOI10.1007/s00591-009-0064-8zbMath1234.11170OpenAlexW2331008567MaRDI QIDQ969628

Thomas Neukirchner, Heino Hellwig

Publication date: 7 May 2010

Published in: Mathematische Semesterberichte (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00591-009-0064-8

zbMATH Keywords

modular groupcontinued fractionsFibonacci numbersphyllotaxisFord circles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05) Continued fractions (11A55) Plant biology (92C80)

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Spiral disk packings ⋮ Archimedean Voronoi spiral tilings ⋮ Physical phenomenology of phyllotaxis ⋮ Area convergence of Voronoi cells on spiral lattices ⋮ Voronoi tiling and circle packing on spiral lattices with rotational symmetry

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