The thesis was defended on May 22, 1995 and is
available for download.
Color images from the thesis are online.
This paper describes the basic developmental model:
A related paper describes an application of the developmental model to computer
graphics.
Some images are on my home page.
Another related paper.
Some of my favorite images from the thesis work.
"
A Simulation Testbed for the Study of Multicellular Development:
Multiple Mechanisms of Morphogenesis,"
Fleischer,
Barr, Artificial Life III, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
(Paper Postscript, compressed 190K).
(Images Postscript, compressed 420K).
"Cellular Texture Generation,"
Fleischer, Laidlaw, Currin, Barr, Proceedings of ACM Siggraph 95.
(Postscript, compressed 1Meg).
"Investigations with a Multicellular Developmental Model,"
Artificial Life 5, Nara, Japan, 1996.
Kurt Fleischer.
(Color Postscript, compressed 4.7Meg).
(Black&White Postscript, compressed 375K).
(Color images online)
Some of my work was supported as part of the
NSF Science and Technology Center
for
Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization.
Related work by other folks can be found in the online book Visual Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided Tour also see lots of fun pointers from Frank Dellaert's home page.
Reaction-diffusion clickable map and some physics pattern formation by other folks at Caltech.