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Turing pattern

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English

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Three examples of Turing patterns

Etymology

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Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.

Noun

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Turing pattern (plural Turing patterns)

  1. (biology, mathematics) A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.
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Further reading

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