A bacterial colony is not self-similar

Marek C. Ruzicka, Mirek Fridrich and Martin Burkhard

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1995, vol. 216, issue 4, 382-385

Abstract: The geometry of complex bacterial colonies has been studied. Different values of the exponent in scaling law have been recorded on different length scales. Thus a colony is not a self-similar object and has a multiple fractal structure.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(95)00050-H

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