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.
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Volume 138 | Issue 3537
12 October 1962
12 October 1962
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1962 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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