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Dislodgement shrink patterns.
In all of these structures, units were drawn starting in the center. Following a shrink S-curve, the central units were the biggest. After this initial state, all of the units grew. But the central units did not grow as quick as the surrounding ones. Note that all these patterns are Fibonacci patterns.
Below, center, every fifth unit was highlighted.