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IMAGE: Illustration of visibility graphs for different flowers. On the contour (green), nodes are evenly spaced and connected by edges when they do not touch or intersect the contour. view more
Credit: MPI-MP, Jacqueline Nowak
In nature, many things have evolved that differ in size, color and, above all, in shape. While the color or size of an object can be easily described, the description of a shape is more complicated. In a study now published in
Nature Communications, Jacqueline Nowak of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and her colleagues have outlined a new and improved way to describe shapes based on a network representation that can also be used to reassemble and compare shapes.