Formation mechanism of complex pattern on fishes' skin

Xia Li; Shuhua Liu

doi:10.1117/12.833152

30 October 2009 Formation mechanism of complex pattern on fishes' skin

Xia Li, Shuhua Liu

Proceedings Volume 7497, MIPPR 2009: Medical Imaging, Parallel Processing of Images, and Optimization Techniques; 74971X (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.833152
Event: Sixth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, 2009, Yichang, China

Abstract

In this paper, the formation mechanism of the complex patterns observed on the skin of fishes has been investigated by a two-coupled reaction diffusion model. The effects of coupling strength between two layers play an important role in the pattern-forming process. It is found that only the epidermis layer can produce complicated patterns that have structures on more than one length scale. These complicated patterns including super-stripe pattern, mixture of spots and stripe, and white-eye pattern are similar to the pigmentation patterns on fishes' skin.

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Xia Li and Shuhua Liu "Formation mechanism of complex pattern on fishes' skin", Proc. SPIE 7497, MIPPR 2009: Medical Imaging, Parallel Processing of Images, and Optimization Techniques, 74971X (30 October 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.833152

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