Supplementary material to:

Polyp Oriented Modelling of Coral Growth
Journal of Theoretical Biology 228, 559-576, 2004. [link]

Roeland M.H. Merks, Alfons G. Hoekstra, Jaap A. Kaandorp and Peter M.A. Sloot
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, Section Computational Science
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands


VRML files

The VRML files can be viewed using any VRML97 or VRML2.0 client. They have been tested with the Cortona VRML client for Windows and Macintosh and with the VRML view client for Linux, Irix and Windows NT/95. Other VRML clients can be found at the web3D repository. Extensive installation instructions can be found here.

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MPEG growth movies

The MPEG movies can be viewed with any MPEG movie viewer, such as the freely downloadable QuickTime or RealPlayer. For Unix and Linux there are many good MPEG players around. For example, we like to use the following MPEG player for Unix.

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VRML: (a) (0.5 Mb) (b) (0.3 Mb) (c) (0.3 Mb) (d) (0.2 Mb) (e) (0.2 Mb) (f) (0.2 Mb) (g) (60 Kb) (h) (40 Kb)

MPEG growth movies (rotating viewpoint): (a) (3.5 Mb) (b) (3.5 Mb) (c) (3.5 Mb) (d) (3.5 Mb) (e) (3.5 Mb) (f) (3.5 Mb) (g) (3.5 Mb) (h) (3.5 Mb)

MPEG growth movies (fixed viewpoint): (a) (3.5 Mb) (b) (3.5 Mb) (c) (3.5 Mb) (d) (3.5 Mb) (e) (3.5 Mb) (f) (3.5 Mb) (g) (3.5 Mb) (h) (3.5 Mb)


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Roeland Merks
Last modified: Mon Apr 19 12:12:31 MEST 2004