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Morphogenesis of 3D sheets exploiting a spatial condition

Miyashita, Shuhei

In: Artificial Life and Robotics, 2007, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 139-144

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    Title
    • Morphogenesis of 3D sheets exploiting a spatial condition
    Author
    • Miyashita, Shuhei. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Andreasstrasse 15, CH8050, Zurich, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:315728
    Summary
    This article reports on the morphogenesis of three-dimensional folding sheets in a computer simulation. In order to exploit the topology of these cellular sheets, we introduced a cell connection map, which can prescript cell connections regardless of the changing number of cells. We show that morphogenetic patterns such as exponential growth, self-replication processes, and annihilation processes can easily be realized just by observing the number of neighbors of each cell. That means that this feat is achieved in a distributed and autonomous way