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riveis, rrees, eloiads, animals, and landlonns generally
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as a sel oi shapes, appaierirly uuielahed lo each olher,
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al least as iar as a eemmon underlying pauei-n is
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soueemed Whal do we see’ We ean liil some ol in.
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visilile looms as follnws:
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- wovss ori waler aud "hoe as ripples in dunes
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and saudslones, or iassilised quaruiles and slaees.
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« srlzzixMLlNEs, as loam siripa on wales, and in
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siieams rheinselves
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. CLOUD lows in iravernne (puma: ealeire fmm
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hol springs», iree owns, and “Fully" rlouds or as
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rloiid slieains,
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- SPIRALS in galames, sunilowers, rhe glohal
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eneulahou ol air, whmpmli, and ehams of islands in
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an:
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. LosEs, as ar lhe edge ol reela, in liehens, and
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lrmgmg diehordeis Msall pans
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- BRANCHES, in new and soeauis eonveigiug or
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dlvelgmyexw esharrer mes
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. scnmzs ol algae. lree clumps in swamps,
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islands, and liehens on moles
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- NEIS as eraeles in mud, honeyeornh, iuside bird
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bones, in iheeolui-unsol oasalrlas viewed lioiri shovel,
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and (lens ol rising and lallmg air on desens
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The was or marks in mud and eoolmg lava are
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shrinkage panems raused nm by llow or growih. our
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oy rhe Yawn! revision ol drying or eooling, as are many
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parrerns in ieellows and lhe eraelsed pauern ul poilerv.
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or lhe eraeks in bar): on liees. Thermal wind eells arise
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al rhe sonlluenee ol large heal cells on deserl lloors.
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ioriniug a nel paliern il viewed lioiri above or oelow
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in all ol lhese eulegories, I hope lo show ihar one
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iriasier pairern o applieaole, and lhal eiieu lhe bodies
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oi animals are made up ol bones, organs. and muscles
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ol one or inoie ol lhe lax-ms above 1 will link these
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phenomena—generaled by growlh and "W7 lnro a
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single model loi-in. Thai [mm is a slylised liee iriguie
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m Around um eeniral rree lorm ol rhis model are
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arranged various eiosseseeiions. plans, longiludinal
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seerions, and srieamliue palhs, all derived lroin real
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seelioris, palhs, or pioieelioris ol rhe me.
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The evoluiiou ol sueh a lorm lioin an inihal pomi in
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spacedlmr, l call an EVENT sueh evenls can lse
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ahsimol or palpable. They have m soi-ui-nou an origin
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lol, a phase ol giowrh ln-‘le- an expression ol iheir
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energy polenlioll. dzcay, and dissoluriou inio olher
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evonrs ol a likz or unhke lririn. The eveur ol a nee is al
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leasi |hvu~dimensmnzL and musr be lhoughl oi as
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exreudiug mo and oul or a plane 1F). However, many
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similar evenis inch as migralion panei-ris or glacianou
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ean he as well porirayed (As lhey are seen in aerial
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phorographsl as rwodimensional
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nie curvilinear S1REAMLINES 1959), are seen lo
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eurve or spiral ihiough rhe Origui, rust as iin lam lhe
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phloem lsroiage eellsl and xylsrn lsaphearing eellsl
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spiral rhrougli lhe xex‘ axis, or earrh suriare plane m,
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ol a ieal iree, Not so easy Io ponray is lho laer lhal rhe
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xylem is rxltnull io llie slems and unusual lo rhe rools,
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and lhe phloem rhe seveise Al a zone in rhe plane ml,
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lhereloie, lhese oells INTERWEAVE or eroas over as
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rhey spiroloui oloriulo rhe med'
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This deeeprively simple ~apple soie' or rree shape.
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sp lling oulol lhe plane il- isasloweinoving yoneir
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such as we see in lorriadoes and whirlpools Tnlflc
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lhiougri lhe slieai-uliues is in bath dlnzlwns, in m,
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iugais and pholosyulheoo pmduus rravel iron. aown
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ro iool margin, and waler and minerals lioin rools ro
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erown. Thin, each margin oi our panern is born
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eolleelmg and disrrihuling malerials lroin diilerenr
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media. The rree lrades horh ways wilh eleoieurs or lhe
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media, and lhere is an aeiive waler and gaseous
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exenauge wlth (he media (M1. M2) Two—way irude is
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she normaliry oi plauls, organs, Im‘l uaiuial lormo
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As we know, a erosseiiiola eree slem, lhe hasisoirhe
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srudy ol dendioehronology, reveals a largel panern ol
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expanding growih loy which rhe reee adds bulk
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anuuallyl and hom whlch we ean diseoyer much aoour
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pasi oeeurreuses ol droughl, seaaoual ehariges,
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aunosphei-ieeomposiron, rise, and wind iriguie u—lrl
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Sanw palms lpandanvs spp l ol lhe liopirs develop
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ascending ikzm spiials. very remmiaseor ol lan iuroiue
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blades, and sunllowers eieale open seed spirals lin lwo
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diiesiioual, so eoniinon in many whorled plaurs, rhe
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slem iisell lorees open an ever-expanding llow
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rhiough rhe xev plane herweeu lhe media, allowing
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more malerial lo pass rhrnugh as rime aeeumulales
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rhe eveni expands ihe in al ruplure ol ihe suiiaee
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herween lhe media, allow g giearer now io uh plase,
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and lliis we is ieeorded in lhe largel paliern ol rhe
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seem, ar lhe poxm or gennrnarion mm mm lei.
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4.3
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MATRICES AND THE STRATEGIES
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OF COMPACTING AND
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COMPLEXINC COMPONENTS
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A sei oi inlerseelrng sine waves developed over a
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regular square or hexagonal malrix will sel up a
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surlaee eoiriposed ol our one model shapes, ll doesn-li
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i-uarrer ilwe see lhe sine waves as sraoe or nowiug, lhe
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eoie model will sail mainrain irs shape, and llow in rhe
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sysrom does nor necessarily delorin lhe pauern. Sueh a
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pallern malrix lrlgure 4.2: shows rhal our models
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leirellaie lliom rhe laiin iesserie, meaning iilesl io
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ereale whole suriaees ll landsnpc are, in laer, a see ol
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sueh models, they musl he aole ro lessellale
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Convee n eells on desens arise lrorn a roughly
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hexagonal malrix ol air eells 1—5 kin aeross, and
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riiazriees also underlie ihe spacing oi nees loiesls
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olaeial laudseapes show whole series 0! sueh
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pallerns, as do regular river headwaiers We eould
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equally well have erealed a marrix by adding in
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samples ol our core pallem as we add riles m a floor,
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Thus we see (he Euelideari eoneepl ol poiues and lines
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underhes our eumliuear lorms. Even ii-iegulai models
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inguie Lil lessellale Sueh resssllae are sen-red on
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neis or iegular grids
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