The biology of the inversion process in Volvox carteri is examined, and a coupled mechanical and kinetic model is proposed. See attached proposal for details. The presentation given is also attached here, as well as the final paper. Also, a movie of the simulation that made all of the work wroth while, the inversion of a half-sphere, is attached here as well. Note: The file inversion2bw.doc is a movie, just download it and change the extension to .avi. This has to be done since iMechanica doesn't allow attachment of .avi files directly.
| Attachment | Size |
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| projectproposal.pdf | 556.6 KB |
| projectPresentation.pdf | 1.92 MB |
| projectPaper.pdf | 10.07 MB |
| inversion2bw.doc | 446 KB |