The Role of Elastic Stresses on Leaf Venation Morphogenesis
Figure 2
Snapshots of the development process.
The values of the growing parameter, from top left to bottom right, are η = 1.2, 2.4, 3.6, and 4.8. The seed we use as the initial condition is shown in the first panel with a different color. The numerical lattice has 1024×1024 nodes.