Sébastien Tripodi, Pascal Ballet and Vincent Rodin.
Self-organization of a virtual multicellular organism by adding a shape model
in the Cellular Potts Model.
Artificial Life XII, 12th International Conference on the Synthesis and
Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE), pages 249-256, Odense (Denmark),
19-23 August 2010.
Abstract:
The Cellular Potts Model (CPM) is a cellular automaton (CA)
allowing to model the morphogenesis of living cells. It characterizes
a cell by its volume, surface and type. The CPM
has already been used to simulate several models of cell selforganization.
However, the cell shape is under-constraint i.e.
it does not implies a unique shape. We propose a definition
and an implementation of the cell shape in the CPM, that can
target a unique shape. The results of our simulations show
that this target shape can structure and maintain the cellular
tissue since the beginning of its growth and during its life.
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