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Surface patterns are common in biological objects. The stripes of zebras, the spots of the leopard are ubiquitous in the popular scientific literature [137], but also invertebrates and plants show various patterns. In the present context the patterns on the shells of molluscs (especially snails and mussels) are of special interest. These patterns are not produced all at once. Since the shell gradually grows by adding material to the outer edge and since the pattern is not changed later, the pattern is essentially located in a space-time continuum, with the space axis parallel to the edge and the time axis perpendicular to the edge.
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Hadeler, KP., Müller, J. (2017). Pattern Formation. In: Cellular Automata: Analysis and Applications. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53043-7_12
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