Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells

The pigment patterns on tropieal shells are of great beauty and diversity. They fas­ cinate by their mixture of regularity and irregularity. A partieular pattern seems to follow partieular mIes but these mIes allow variations. No two shells are identical. The motionless patterns appear to be static, and, indeed, they consist of calcified material. However, as will be shown in this book, the underl...