✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Movement and Perception

unred.org · 154 words · saved by 1 readers

My interests have revolved around problems in biological morphogenesis, the emergence of shape and movements in nature. By focusing on plants I have been more and more interested by the relation between perception and movements. Unlike animals, where development and movements are most of the time well separated, those processes are tied together through the action of growth. I am trying to design experimental and theoretical tools for the study of biological system by unraveling the constraints at the scale of the organ and organism. I recently started to gain interest in the emergence of 3 dimensional collective movements in animals, through the central role of perception. Indeed there are strong similarities with my previous interest as a movement driven by local perception is able to modify the shape of a structure at large scale.

Movement, Perception, Cybernetics The robustness of the forms observed in nature implies the existence of an active system of developmental regulation. The integration of perception completes the mechanical constraints acting on the system while making the link with the underlying biological mechanisms. To understand this regulation, I follow an approach oriented towards the identification of generic patterns of development, the design of minimal models of perception and the definition of morphometric experiments. My research forms a coherent whole on behavior and morphogenesis around the rela

Explore this link on the map →

related reading