# Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them?

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/are-all-fish-the-same-shape-if-you-stretch-them/1534>\
**Category:** N+1 Fish, N+2 Fish\
**Created:** [October 25, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/are-all-fish-the-same-shape-if-you-stretch-them/1534 "2017-10-25T14:46:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![antor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@antor](https://community.drivendata.org/u/antor)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/are-all-fish-the-same-shape-if-you-stretch-them/1534/1 "2017-10-25T14:46:11Z")

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![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/drivendata1/original/1X/eaad0d966db739aa672add06c6c0fc25d7989bfd.png)[http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2017/10/darcy\_00a\_620.png](http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/data/uploads/2017/10/darcy_00a_620.png)

Sorry, couldn’t resist posting this:

> **[Are All Fish the Same Shape if You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On...](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/10/are-all-fish-the-same-shape-if-you-stretch-them-the-victorian-tale-of-on-growth-and-form/)**
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> A look at D'Arcy Thompson, his book of ideas on biological growth and form based on mathematics and physics, and ties to modern mathematical science.

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**Author:** ![lopuhin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/community.drivendata.org/lopuhin/32/532_2.png) [@lopuhin](https://community.drivendata.org/u/lopuhin)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/are-all-fish-the-same-shape-if-you-stretch-them/1534/2 "2017-10-25T15:28:56Z")

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Haha, probably we shouldn’t be using this as our augmentation technique then 🙂