Modelling Growth and Form of the Scleractinian Coral Pocillopora verrucosa and the Influence of Hydrodynamics
Figure 9
Visualization of the volume rendering of the simulated corals with their associated histograms of the local morphometric traits.
Red lines indicate projected branches vector on the substratum plane (visualized from the bottom up perspective). For the simulation with flow, flow is directed from right to left. The morphometric traits measured here are as follow: symmetry angles hangle and vangle, and the symmetry attitude smmag (see table 1 for labels). (A) SIM_NO_FLOW, Pe_branch = 0, (B) SIM_FLOW_D1, Pe_branch = 0.00113, (C) SIM_FLOW_D2, Pe_branch = 0.0105 (D) SIM_FLOW_D3, Pe_branch = 0.097 (E) SIM_FLOW_D4, Pe_branch = 1.13.