This code generates a circular vascular network that inspired by the retinal network of a zebra fish. The idea of Fibonacci trees are used to generate the network. See the design process.
Main author: Bowei (Bobbie) Wu
Also includes the following contributions and influces:
Bowei Wu - NURBS or B-splines polygon smoothing Link
Hai Zhu - polygon smoothing based on partition of unity (POU)
Massimo Zanetti - smoothing cubic splines with periodic conditions Link
Nick Trefethen - random smooth function
- Left: network generated by this code.
- Right: retinal vascular network of a zebra fish, from [Alvarez et al., 2007]
Alvarez et al. (2007). Genetic determinants of hyaloid and retinal vasculature in zebrafish. BMC developmental biology, 7(1):114.