Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math
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Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math
NYT gift Link: Two engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are particularly intrigued with the spots, stripes and hexagons found on an Australian species in the boxfish family: the ornate boxfish. The designs on that species' skin, they discovered, can be described and reproduced using decades-old mathematics once explored by Alan Turing [archive]Study: Imperfect Turing patterns: Diffusiophoretic assembly of hard spheres via reaction-dif…
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