The article gives a definition of the organic form as an infinite-similar and self-similar structure, which is based on the increased unity of the whole and the part - holomereological symmetry. A model of plant forms as organic forms is proposed, which are based on spherocylinders - infinite-similar cylindrical volumes joined with hemispheres at their ends. The data on the golden wurf in the metric of plant stems are presented. The cirrus leaf model in MathCad is briefly described. The problem of the organic form, the form of living organisms, is a long-discussed topic in biology, in particular, in morphology. There is a lot of empirical material relating to the description of a huge variety of biological forms. However, until now, the laws of the organic form and its specificity, in comparison with the forms of inorganic bodies, continue to raise more questions than answers. It is clear that organic forms are special, they have their own laws and types of morphogenesis. But what is the essence of these features, what is the logic of their organization, all this is still largely unclear.
The author develops a new approach to the
interpretation of the essence of organic forms, suggesting
that these forms are small spaces with its symmetry,
topology and metric, featuring considerably from those of
the environment. For the expression of such specificity, a
new mathematical tool, so-called R-analysis (relativistic
analysis of quantity) is used, which is based on the
isomorphic mappings (R-functions) between the finite
structures and their infinite prototypes. On this basis, a
new interpretation of the basic constructions of
mathematical analysis is proposed, in particular, the
calculus of infinitesimals [
Applications of the ideas of R-analysis to geometry
allow to develop a new direction, which may be
conventionally designated as "R-geometry" [
In this paper, organic forms of plant organisms are chosen for modeling as simpler and more geometrized types of living forms. But it is assumed that the results obtained for plants can be further generalized for all organic forms.
When modeling organic forms, it is proposed to use isomorphic mappings (R-functions) R±1V* between finite 3D-volumes V* and their infinite prototypical spaces V, where V* = R-1V*(V), V = R+1V*(V*). In this case, for the final volume V*, a coordinate system can be determined that most economically and organically expresses the internal geometry of the volume V*. Such a coordinate system can be called a natural (selected) coordinate system for the R-space V*. In simpler cases, vector Rfunctions can be reduced to scalar ones. For example, if the 3D-sphere S* with radius M>0 is considered as the volume V*, then it is natural to consider the spherical coordinate system (r, ϕ, θ) in the space S to be the selected system for S*, assuming that −∗1( , , ) = −1( ), , = ( ∗, , ), where −1( ) is a scalar Rfunction that isomorphically compresses the real axis R into the interval (-M,+ M).
For example: R+1M(x) = (2 / ) (/2 ) is the direct R-function, R-1M(x) = (2 / ) ( /2 ) is the inverse Rfunction.
Similarly, a cylindrical volume C* = R-1C*(C) with radius M and height 2H can be built, where C is the space with the cylindrical coordinate system (ρ, ϕ, z), and −∗1( , , ) = −1( ), , −(1 ) = ( ∗, , ∗).
To model plant forms we will further use a spherocylinder - a cylindrical R-space C*, to the upper and lower bases of which the upper S+* and lower S-* Rhemispheres are attached, and they obtained from the Rsphere S* by narrowing zenith angle θ to values θ∈[0,π/2] and θ∈[π/2,π] respectively (fig. 1). 3.
The specificity of the organic form was noted for a
long time. For example, in the research of I.V. Goethe, a
theory of metamorphosis was proposed, i.e. the
transformation of one plant organ into another. Goethe
also believed that the protoform of the plant is the leaf
from which its other organs originate: calyx, corolla,
stamens, and pestle. An attempt to express plant forms as
formed on the basis of a single protoform is also vividly
presented in the so-called telome theory of the German
botanist V.Zimmermann [
The organic form can be defined as a spatial structure, which has the following essential properties: 1) infinitesimilarity, i. e., in our case, this structure is a finite volume V*, which is isomorphic to the infinite space V, i. e. ∗ = −∗1( ∗), where −∗1 is an isomorphism, 2) self-similarity: in the form V*, there are parts v* that are similar to the whole V*, i.e. an isomorphic mapping ∗ = −∗1( ∗) is defined (note that self-similarity is a property of the whole V*), 3) holo-similarity, when a part of the whole is similar to the whole (holo-similarity is a property of part v*), 4) the presence of protoform, i.e. such a form v0*, by transformations of which all the holo-similar parts v* of the whole V* (including the whole V * itself) are formed.
All the described features of the organic form express one general principle: the increased interpenetration of the whole and the part when the third state of the wholepart arises (or holomerone, from the greek “holos” - the whole, and “meros” - the part), i.e. an invariant of transformations between the whole and the part. This kind of invariance can also be called holomereological symmetry.
In addition, the organic form as a whole V* also has infinite-similarity, i.e. it is an infinite space compressed into a finite volume, representing additional kind of invariance, the invariance between infinite and finite. These kinds of invariants can be called fininfinites, or even shorter: finfinites.
In this case, in the most concise way, it can be argued that the organic form is a finfinite holomerone. 5.
The abstract idea of an organic form, as defined above, can be more specifically implemented in the mathematical modeling of a generalized plant as a system of coordinated spherocylinders.
According to Zimmermann's telome theory, a plant is a system of coordinated cylinders. However, the cylindrical coordinate system cannot generate, as its own movements, a laterally deviation of one cylinder relative to another. For such a deviation, it is necessary that the z axis of the lateral cylinder deviates by a nonzero zenith angle relative to the z axis of the original cylinder, but there is no zenith angle in the cylindrical coordinate system, it is only in the spherical one. Therefore, considering the plant form as an objectified own coordinate system, we must supplement the cylindrical structures of the telome theory with spherical structures. The design of the spherocylinder described above, just allows you to implement such a deviation. Due to the presence of hemispheres at the ends of the cylinder, lateral deviations of the z axis are possible here with the formation of a new spherocylinder. Thus, we can assume that wherever plant structure is capable of branching, it can do so only within a spherical component (hemispheres) of spherocylinders (fig. 2). The fact that a part of the stem can be cut out of the plant, planted in the ground, and new shoots will start to grow from its upper end, and the roots begin to grow below, suggests that inside some spherocylinders there are potentially others that can be activated under certain conditions. This is the property of self-similarity of the plant form as organic form.
Morphologically, the lateral branchings of the plant stem realize themselves through the formation of leaves and the growth of the new shoot from the lateral bud, which is located in the sinus between the leaf stalk and the stem. The leaf itself expresses the finale of plant growth, while the lateral bud contains the germ of a new shoot with its growth potential. But in order to form a new shoot in a new direction of growth, you need a leaf and a lateral bud that appears near it. Like a leaf is a direction with a fixed value, the lateral bud and its future shoot are a value with a fixed direction.
It seems that it is very convenient to simulate by changing of the vector X, where |X| is the value of X, and x is the unit vector of X, i.e. x = X/|X|. Then we get: = | | = | | + | |
Here, the complete change of the vector in time is the sum of two changes: 1) change in direction with the fixed value, which is expressed by the term | | the value with the fixed direction | |. , 2) change in
So in the dynamics of plant growth, these two components are morphologically separated. The moment of direction change with the fixed value is allotted to the leaf with the formation of a lateral bud, while the growth of the lateral shoot from this bud expresses the moment of change in the value with the fixed direction.
As you know, the stem has negative geotropism (the tendency to grow up, against gravity), and the root has positive one (grow down, by gravity). This means that the stem and root carry their own coordinate systems, where there is a vertical axis, and they coordinate this axis with the direction of gravity. In the cylindrical coordinate system, there is such an axis, this is the z axis. But we need also the asymmetry of the axis z to express geotropism, what can be done through the introduction of two cylindrical coordinate system: (ρ, ϕ, zL) for stem spherocylinder, and (ρ, ϕ, zG) for the root one, where zL = - zG.
But if there are essentially two oppositely polarized cylinders with coordinates zL and zG in the cylinder of the spherocylinder, then each of them is associated with only one hemisphere (upper for itself). As a result, we have two hemispherocylinders in one spherocylinder. They can be called, for example, as L - and G-hemispherocylinders (levitational and gravitational ones).
Another interesting phenomenon of plant morphogenesis is phyllotaxis, i.e. patterns of disposition of leaves on the stem. It turns out that in the general case, the attachment points of leaf stalks to the stem form a spiral, where m turns of spiral have n leaves, if we go along the stem (as z axis) from a leaf with a certain azimuth angle ϕ in the cylindrical coordinate system (ρ, ϕ, z) to the first leaf with the same angle. They say about such leaves that they lie on one vertical line - orthostichia. It is remarkable that pairs of numbers m and n (usually they are written as the fraction m/n) in this case are elements of k 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 4.8 6.7 5.8 6.8 5.8 7.3 6 7.3 7.3 5.5 the Fibonacci series and are characteristic of each type of plant. For example, the leaf disposition in cereals, birch, grapes is expressed by the formula ½, in a tulip, alder - 1/3, in pears, currants, plums - 2/5, in cabbage, radishes, flax
In this case, we see the involvement of the azimuthal angle in the organization of spherocylinders. On the stem of the plant upwards, there is a spiral organization, expressed in lateral leaves (shoots). It should be noted that a cylindrical spiral is a fairly organic structure in the cylindrical coordinate system. It is expressed by the form (ρ0, ϕ, z(ϕ)), where for example z(ϕ) = kϕ.
Let us see how a lateral shoot is formed. In the area of
the stem node, there is a cross section of the cylinder,
which becomes the base of the upper hemisphere, due to
which the z axis can deviate, and a lateral spherocylinder
appears. This creates an uncompensated spherical polarity
(in the plane (ρ, ϕ)), which must be compensated, and the
emergence of a sequence of other side leaves (shoots) is
the intention to gradually compensate for the initial
polarity until the branch will come exactly above the initial
one (on one orthostich). Similar relationships can be
expressed by polar analysis [
Summing up, we can assume the plant structure as the organic form having increased unity of the whole and parts, as well as infinite-similarity whole, more specifically expressed in the possibility of providing Rspherocylinders as a base plant protoform, by various modifications and compositions of which derivative plant forms are generated. In this case, the plant appears as a multi-level hierarchical R-space, which includes many spherocylindrical R-subspaces and their compositions. Each of the vertical R-spherocylinders includes two hemicylinders
with opposite geotropy and their own cylindrical coordinate systems that are oppositely directed along the z axis. 6.
S.V. Petukhov introduced the concept of the golden
wurf and showed its implementation for many divisions of
organic
forms
[
The author investigated the implementation of the golden wurf
W(a, b, c) for neighboring divisions a, b, c using the example of the lengths of internodes of plant stems and obtained a good agreement between the average values of the wurfs and 1.3. Below is one of the tables for the chicory stalk (table 1). After the table, there is a graph representing the values of the Wurfs from this table (fig. 3).
1.240 1.407 1.270 1.430 1.250 1.430 1.290 5.4 5.4 4.2 4 4 2.9 3.4 2.9 1.7 2.3 1.5 0.7 0.5
In a number of my works [
At the beginning, when constructing a mathematical model of cirrus leaf, it is carried out the compression by inverse R-function R-1
M of the axis x, yielding the variable x* = R-1M(x). Then, the contour of the sheet K(x*) is formed, taking, for example, a linear function, raising it to a power β of less than 1, which will give the convexity of the contour:
K(x) := M0⋅ M − R(x)
M
β .
Here M0 is the maximum level of the sheet edge along the y axis, R(x) is the inverse R-function R-1M(x).
In MathCad, we obtain the graph K(x*), expressing K(x) along the axis y, and along the axis x we have value x* = R(x) = R-1M(x). Here x acts as a parameter, on which both the absciss and the ordinate depend. But the function K is written for x as its argument. And to get a point of the contour K(x*), we need to set the value of the argument x for the function K. It should be borne in mind that the functions K(x) and K(x*) are different! ( ∗) = 0 − ∗ Therefore, we write not K(xi), but K(S(xi)).
Therefore we get the vertical segment over xi up to K(xi). This segment expresses the orthogonal lateral vein at the point of separation xi from the central vein.
To express cirrus venation, we tilt this segment from point xi to point x(i +1). To do this, we introduce a new parameter ai, for which we set the range of variation and a linear function on this range:
ai := S(xi) , S(xi) + 0.1.. S(xi + 1), Zi(ai) := R(ai) − xi (xi + 1) − xi ⋅K(S(xi + 1)).
Here again, it should be noted that we take the parameter ai relative to the R-compressed scale x*, defining it in the interval from ( ( ))∗ = to ( ( +1))∗ = +1, therefore, the parameter ai itself must be determined with respect to the direct R-maps for this segment.
We also supplement all the constructions for y≥0 on the region y<0 by putting a minus sign in front of the corresponding functions. As xi, points 0, 2 and 4 were selected. The last inclined straight is ended at the point K(5.5) of the edge. As a result, we have the following picture for M = 6 and M0 = 5 – fig. 4.
Summing up, we can conclude that the laws of the plant form, as an important example of the living form in general, completely correspond to the hypothesis of the organic form and infinite-similarity of biological systems, striving in the limit to maximize fusion of the whole and the part in the state of holomereological symmetry, combining the properties of infinite-similarity and selfsimilarity, reinforced by penetration of a single spherocylindrical protoform. The plant appears as a kind of "living crystal", possessing an amazing "living geometry" with its own peculiar laws and principles of a highly holistic being.
The article defines the organic form and its application to modeling the morphology of a generalized plant as an infinite-similar and self-similar structure on Rspherocylinders. On this basis, an attempt was made to explain a number of plant morphology phenomena: lateral bud, geotropism, phyllotaxis, etc. Empirical data are presented, supporting the golden wurf phenomenon for plant morphology. A model of the cirrus leaf as a system of R-structures is constructed.
The reported study was funded by RFBR according to the research project № 19-07-01024.
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