ArticleTheory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften2025
Smart and smarter: improving on a classic egg shape model.
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- Coupling Artificial Intelligence with Proper Mathematical Algorithms to Gain Deeper Insights into the Biology of Birds' Eggs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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Smart's model (SM) describing the geometry of avian eggs is, uniquely, based on physiological characteristics of eggs formation in oviduct walls transforming a sphere to an ellipsoid, to an ovoid. The purpose of this study was to revisit and perform a more in-depth examination of SM, providing a possible improvement in terms of reducing the number of initial parameters and compliance with geometric principles fundamental for bodies of revolution. SM requires measuring five egg parameters: length (L), maximum breadth (B), displacement of the central axis to the level of maximum breadth (w), and two radii of the egg at a point shifted by ¼L from the pointed (r) and blunt (R) ends, respectively. A practical test for the reproduction degree of three egg shape varieties using five-parameter model confirmed its maximum accuracy compared to all others. Modifications using four parameters (L, B, w and r or B
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