Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells
Abstract
The basic form of many coiled gastropod shells can be defined by four parameters. A digital computer with automatic plotting equipment can be used to make graphical reconstructions of a shell from any given values of the four parameters.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- October 1962
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.138.3537.150
- Bibcode:
- 1962Sci...138..150R