The boxfish shape is actually a very stable, and low drag shape- see papers by
Bartol et al. and Hove et. al in JEB over ther last five years. Mercedes may
have read our papers ( they did not give credit) ...
D. Weihs
Quoting Fritz Vollrath <[log in to unmask]>:
> interesting story, really, you must talk to Nachtigall about that. All
> wrong, the development of that thing.
> and a jolly pagan feast to you Julian, with the hope of a proper catching
> up sometime in 06, Fritz
>
> Prof. Fritz Vollrath
> Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
>
Daniel Weihs
Distinguished Professor
The Louis & Lyra Richmond Chair in Sciences
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
Technion, Haifa, 32000 Israel
T: +972 48 293806 F: +972 48 292030 http://www.technion.ac.il/~dweihs
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