The Influence of Branch Order on Optimal Leaf Vein Geometries: Murray’s Law and Area Preserving Branching
Figure 5
Frequency distributions for area ratios for each branch order 1-8.
Note that as in Figure 4, the mode of distribution shifts from overlapping Murray’s law in the lowest order branches, to overlapping area preserving branching in the highest order branches. In addition, the shape of the distribution changes with increasing branch order, decreasing in variance and becoming increasingly leptokurtic (see Results).