Pattern selection in models of ocular dominance column development

This record archives an unpublished manuscript by Michael J. Lyons, Pattern selection in models of ocular dominance column development, written at the California Institute of Technology in 1993. The manuscript develops a nonlinear mode-amplitude analysis of pattern selection in models of ocular dominance column formation. The deposit includes a 2026 archival reconstruction of the manuscript with the six surviving figures appended, the recovered manuscript working directory and source materials, the original PostScript file for Figure 1, and a README documenting provenance, source chronology, reconstruction, and known incomplete or unresolved items. The scientific content has not been retrospectively revised or updated.