Looking through the window of my office I made this strange observation: Structures inside the double-glazed insulated window can be seen resembling fungal mycelia.
If you go to my profile then you can have a look at the pictures (I labeled some spots in red)! Has anybody observed similar phenomena? Or is it simply chemical precipitation? It is impossible to take samples unless you break the glass!
Dr Daniel Fernandez of Barcelona university is a specialist in Fungi and deleting his answer is not understandable or ?
There exists a wide variety of patterns in nature, from inert matter such as crystalline dendrites and flames, to filamentous fungi and neurones in the living world. Their structural evolution during growth can be theoretically modelled in order to predict the shape of their forms, their dimensions and their growth rate. "New Visions on Growth and Form" aims at answering such questions by employing different theoretical approaches and providing a critical appraisal. The book belongs to the wide field of non-equilibrium statistical physics, and explores different mechanisms such as transport, interfacial tension, and chemical reactions, which govern the growth of a material. It explains the fundamental equations relating different morphological quantities, as well as the relevant experimental control parameters. From the unifying concepts arising in the theoretical approach the author proposes a tentative description of cell morphogenesis as a further application of the theory
New Visions on Form and Growth: Digitation, Dendrites, and Flames
P Pelcé
400 pages, 80 line illus
Oxford University Press
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