{"id":3862,"date":"2011-03-05T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/05\/ekstasis-alan-turings-patterns-in-nature-and\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:20:43","slug":"ekstasis-alan-turings-patterns-in-nature-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/05\/ekstasis-alan-turings-patterns-in-nature-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ekstasis.tumblr.com\/post\/3600376040\">ekstasis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/02\/turing-patterns\/?pid=978&amp;viewall=true\">Alan Turing\u2019s Patterns in Nature, and Beyond | Wired Science | Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026At the heart of any Turing pattern is a so-called reaction-diffusion  system. It consists of an \u201cactivator,\u201d a chemical that can make more of  itself; an \u201cinhibitor,\u201d that slows production of the activator; and a  mechanism for diffusing the chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>Many combinations of chemicals can fit this system: What matters  isn\u2019t their individual identity, but how they interact, with  concentrations oscillating between high and low and spreading across an  area. These simple units then suffice to produce very complex patterns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn principle, the behavior is generic. The trick is that you have to  have the right rates for the chemical reactions, the right diffusion  rates of reacting species,\u201d said Irving Epstein, a Brandeis University  chemist who studies pattern formation\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Images: Left: Alan Turing. (Ohio State University) Right:  Patterns generated by a computer simulation of the Turing model. each is  made by the same basic equation, with its parameters slightly tweaked.  (Shigeru Kondo &amp; Takashi Miura\/<\/em>Science<em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/keithalink\">@keithalink<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/vruz\">@vruz<\/a>)<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ekstasis: Alan Turing\u2019s Patterns in Nature, and Beyond | Wired Science | Wired.com \u2026At the heart of any Turing pattern is a so-called reaction-diffusion system. It consists of an \u201cactivator,\u201d a chemical that can make more of itself; an \u201cinhibitor,\u201d that slows production of the activator; and a mechanism for diffusing the chemicals. Many combinations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-10i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3500,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/22\/the-human-brain-has-evolved-to-be-very-efficient\/","url_meta":{"origin":3862,"position":0},"title":"The human brain has evolved\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 22, 2011","format":"quote","excerpt":"The human brain has evolved to be very efficient at pattern recognition, but as the confirmation bias shows, we are focused on finding and confirming patterns rather than minimizing our false conclusions. 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