biogeom1.4.3 package

Biological Geometries

SurfaceAreaETE

Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based on the Explicit Trosci...

adjdata

Boundary Data Adjustment of A Polygon

areaGE

Area Calculation for the Gielis Curve Within [0,2π)[0, 2\pi)

areaovate

Area Calculation for an Ovate Polygon

bilat

Measure of the Extent of Bilateral Symmetry of A Polygon

biogeom

Biological Geometries

curveEPE

Drawing the Preston Curve Produced by the the Explicit Preston Equatio...

curveETE

Drawing the Troscianko Curve Produced by the Explicit Troscianko Equat...

curveGE

Drawing the Gielis Curve

curveNRGE

Drawing the Egg Shape Predicted by the Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equati...

curveovate

Drawing the Ovate Leaf-Shape Curve

DEPE

Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of the Explicit Preston Equa...

DETE

Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of the Explicit Troscianko E...

DNRGE

Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of the Narushin-Romanov-Grif...

DSGE

Calculation of the First-Order Derivative of the Simplified Gielis Equ...

EPE

Calculation of the Ordinate For an Arbitrary Point on the Preston Curv...

ETE

Calculation of the Ordinate For an Arbitrary Point on the Troscianko C...

fitEPE

Data-Fitting Function for the Explicit Preston Equation

fitETE

Data-Fitting Function for the Explicit Troscianko Equation

fitGE

Data-Fitting Function for the Gielis Equation

fitLorenz

Data-Fitting Function for the Rotated and Right-Shifted Lorenz Curve

fitNRGE

Parameter Estimation for the Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation

fitovate

Data-Fitting Function for the Ovate Leaf-Shape Equation

fitsigmoid

Data-Fitting Function for the Sigmoid Growth Equation

fitSuper

Data-Fitting Function for the Superellipse Equation

fracdim

Calculation of Fractal Dimension of Lef Veins Based on the Box-Countin...

GE

Calculation of the Polar Radius of the Gielis Curve

lmPE

Parameter Estimation for the Todd-Smart Equation

lmTE

Parameter Estimation for the Troscianko Equation

MbetaE

Modified Beta Equation

MBriereE

Modified Briere Equation

MLRFE

Modified Lobry-Rosso-Flandrois (LRF) Equation

MPerformanceE

Modified Performance Equation

NRGE

The Narushin-Romanov-Griffin Equation (NRGE)

PE

Calculation of the Abscissa, Ordinate and Distance From the Origin For...

SarabiaE

Sarabia Equation

SCSE

Sarabia-Castillo-Slottje Equation (SCSE)

SHE

Sitthiyot-Holasut Equation

sigmoid

Sigmoid Growth Equation

SurfaceAreaEPE

Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based on the Explicit Presto...

SurfaceAreaNRGE

Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based on the Narushin-Romano...

SurfaceAreaSGE

Calculation of the Surface Area of An Egg Based on the Simplified Giel...

TE

The Troscianko Equation (TE)

TGE

Calculation of the Polar Radius of the Twin Gielis Curve

TSE

The Todd-Smart Equation (TSE)

VolumeEPE

Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on the Explicit Preston Equa...

VolumeETE

Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on the Explicit Troscianko E...

VolumeNRGE

Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on the Narushin-Romanov-Grif...

VolumeSGE

Calculation of the Volume of An Egg Based on the Simplified Gielis Equ...

Is used to simulate and fit biological geometries. 'biogeom' incorporates several novel universal parametric equations that can generate the profiles of bird eggs, flowers, linear and lanceolate leaves, seeds, starfish, and tree-rings (Gielis (2003) <doi:10.3732/ajb.90.3.333>; Shi et al. (2020) <doi:10.3390/sym12040645>), three growth-rate curves representing the ontogenetic growth trajectories of animals and plants against time, and the axially symmetrical and integral forms of all these functions (Shi et al. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.01.012>; Shi et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/sym13081524>). The optimization method proposed by Nelder and Mead (1965) <doi:10.1093/comjnl/7.4.308> was used to estimate model parameters. 'biogeom' includes several real data sets of the boundary coordinates of natural shapes, including avian eggs, fruit, lanceolate and ovate leaves, tree rings, seeds, and sea stars,and can be potentially applied to other natural shapes. 'biogeom' can quantify the conspecific or interspecific similarity of natural outlines, and provides information with important ecological and evolutionary implications for the growth and form of living organisms. Please see Shi et al. (2022) <doi:10.1111/nyas.14862> for details.

  • Maintainer: Peijian Shi
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2024-03-29