Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Pattern Algebra. 1. Generators and configurations. 2. Images and patterns
  • part II. Pattern Topology. 3. Some topologies of regular structures
  • part III. Pattern Dynamics. 4. Abstract biological patterns. 5. Patterns of collective behaviour. 6. Patterns generated from extremum principles
  • part IV. Metric Pattern Theory. 7. General principles of MPT. 8. Pattern synthesis. 9. The first limit problem in MPT. 10. The second limit problem in MPT. 11. The limit problem in MPT
  • part V. Pattern Deformations. 12. Deformation mechanisms
  • part VI. Pattern Inference. 13. Ends and means in pattern analysis. 14. Bayesian pattern inference. 15. Lattice-based models. 16. Continuum-based models. 17. Non-Bayesian pattern inference. 18. Pattern recognition
  • part VII. Creating Regular Structures. 19. Creating generators. 20. Creating acceptor functions and connectors.