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Modelling Growth and Form of the Scleractinian Coral Pocillopora verrucosa and the Influence of Hydrodynamics

Figure 5

Morphometric methods.

(A) A skeleton graph with the increased level of occlusion of the volumetric data in the background, (B–C) Visualization of spheres used for calculating morphometric traits - diameter of a sphere at the terminal branch is defined as terminal branch thickness –dc, (D) A visualization of the volumetric data of TS_002 coral (See Table 1 for label), (E) Visualization of symmetry angles h_angle and v_angle , (F) Visualization of the associated vectors used for calculation of symmetry vector sm_mag.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002849.g005