Month: September 2022

WOLFRAM INSPIRATION. “Bard Ermentrout, John Campbell, and George Oster, (1986). Inspired by Wolfram and cellular automata, this is a classic. The neural hypothesis of shell patterning: the secretory activity of the epithelial cells that generate shell patterns is regulated by nervous activity. “ https://lnkd.in/dgWQqGF View in LinkedIn

NEURAL CONTROL. “Accumulating evidence now indicates clearly that shell growth and patterning are under neural control and that shell growth and pigmentation is a neurosecretory phenomenon. Most of this evidence has been gained by detailed studies of the mantle, a tongue-like protrusion of the mollusk that wraps around the edge of the shell and deposits new shell material and pigment at the shell’s growing edge.” https://lnkd.in/d7D7yyC View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this second section on cone shell patterns. When a small blob of tissue resembling gristle which lives within a shell can generate patterns and colors of such mathematical complexity, it makes you appreciate the mental capabilities of the merest creature. That this animal can visualize and execute such a pattern on an unfolding 3D curve is further evidence. Humans have long assumed the worst of humble creatures, or simply not counted them at all. View in LinkedIn

Enigmatic history written in brick. View in LinkedIn