Morphological ripples are partially generated forms that set some global feature of the whole without yet fixing location, dimension, or character precisely.

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• Morphological ripple (concept)concept0.848
  A fuzzy but decisive global feature introduced early; sets character without premature detail.
• Morphological ripplesmethod0.848
  A notation/technique for representing emerging form as partially generated, fieldlike configurations that set global features of the whole without over-specification.
• Morphological invariants of makingframework0.768
  A set of seven characteristics of buildings made by a living process, listed at the end of the chapter.
• Morphogenesis guarantees that coherent wholes will form even while the piecemeal process allows each place to be unique.claim0.752
  Key property of morphogenetic process: it produces both unity and diversity simultaneously.
• The large-scale morphological goals of an organism override and harness the local competencies of individual cells to adaptively navigate morphospace.claim0.752
  Describes top-down control in morphogenesis.
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.746
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.739
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.
• All that is required is that this mechanical procedure is sensitive to the whole and is influenced by and guided by the structure of the whole. That is the secret of morphological emergence in natural phenomena.quote0.738
  Load-bearing statement asserting that sensitivity to the whole is the essential requirement for generating novel living structure.