Conveners
Structures and organisation in nature
- Harsh Jain ()
Wolff’s law states that bone morphology evolves according to their external mechanical loading. Following this law, researchers have tried to simulate bone shape formation, especially for trabecular bone, using topology optimization [1]. Less attention has been given to the bone outer shape, composed of cortical bone. However, trabecular bone and cortical bone are both mainly formed by...
Currently, high-resolution point cloud data can be acquired easily and cost-effectively. For example, a pipeline using Structure from Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS), which is a promising technique to reconstruct a 3D surface as point cloud data from a series of 2D images taken from different angles, has been implemented in several libraries and software products. In this study, we...
Two ecotypes of the marine snail species Littorina saxatilis have, as a result of strong natural selection, maintained different shell shapes in distinct, adjacent environments. Being able to quantify and compare the underlying growth structure for the two ecotypes should provide a better insight into the reasons behind the variability of shell shapes, and connect this to the genetics and...