Friday, March 28, 2014

Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature | Science | WIRED

Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature | Science | WIRED: Turing called this the reaction-diffusion process, meaning that it’s driven by reactive molecules that can diffuse between cells. He called these molecules “morphogens”...

...a team of scientists based at Brandeis University reproduced the system Turing envisioned...

If Turing’s theory was right, then the population of cells would ultimately assume one of six different patterns...

In fact, this is mostly what the team found — they saw five of the six predicted patterns; but they also found a seventh pattern that Turing had not predicted....

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