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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: News Physiol Sci. 1988 Jan 1;3(1):5–10. doi: 10.1152/physiologyonline.1988.3.1.5

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

A pseudofractal analog to the bronchial tree, This is a plane-filling recursion in which line thicknesses (diameters) and lengths are not quite self-similar with division: the ratio of line thickness to length decreases with each iteration, going to zero. Ratio was decreased more rapidly for the left side than the right.