Modelling Growth and Form of the Scleractinian Coral Pocillopora verrucosa and the Influence of Hydrodynamics
Figure 10
Visualization of the volume rendering of the CT-scanned 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 in situ flow-controlled corals, flow direction is 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) controlled coral CT_456, Pe_branch = 0.136, (B) reduced flow coral (TS_002), Pe_branch = 0.0163 (C), enhanced-flow coral TS_001, Pe_branch = 0.188, (D) enhanced-flow coral TS_003, Pe_branch = 0.227, and (E) enhanced-flow coral CT455, Pe_branch = 0.288.