Turing Patterns. Without using terms like ‘reaction-diffusion’ or ‘morphogenesis’, how do you explain the mechanism that creates such beautiful, natural patterns?

Question

Turing Patterns. Without using terms like ‘reaction-diffusion’ or ‘morphogenesis’, how do you explain the mechanism that creates such beautiful, natural patterns?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

The stripy bits have a special pair of properties – they make more of the same colour close to them, but prevent the colour forming a medium distance from them. A long distance away they have no effect

This means that you end up with a coloured bit that reinforces itself, AND creates a gap between that coloured bit and the next coloured bit – creating the basics of the pattern.

Answer 2

Imagine two players playing a game where one places two black discs and another player places one white disc. The white player is trying to block black.

Like an asymmetrical game of Go.

This will result in pattern development on the board.