Turing Patterns

In 1952, Alan Turing showed that two chemicals diffusing at different rates can spontaneously form patterns — spots, stripes, mazes, waves. This is now understood as a fundamental mechanism in biological morphogenesis, from animal coat markings to coral structures. Click the canvas to seed chemical V and watch patterns emerge.

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