Abstract
The regular arrangement of lateral organs (leaves on a stem, scales on a cone axis, florets in a composite flower head) is an important aspect of plant form, known as phyllotaxis. The extensive literature generated by biologists’ and mathematicians’ interest in phyllotaxis is reviewed by Erickson [36] and Jean [78]. The proposed models range widely from purely geometric descriptions (for example, Coxeter [17]) to complex physiological hypotheses tested by computer simulations (Hellendoorn and Lindenmayer [59], Veen and Lindenmayer [151], Young [163]). This chapter presents two models suitable for the synthesis of realistic images of flowers and fruits that exhibit spiral phyllotactic patterns.
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Prusinkiewicz, P., Lindenmayer, A. (1990). Phyllotaxis. In: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. The Virtual Laboratory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8476-2_4
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