Turing Patterns Link Tropical Fish and Bismuth Crystal Growth (IMAGE)

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Turing Patterns Link Tropical Fish and Bismuth Crystal Growth

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The striped pattern found in a monoatomic layer of bismuth is the same as that found in the pigmentation of certain tropical fish. Both are examples of a Turing pattern, order that arises naturally from randomness following a set of dynamic equations

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Yuki Fuseya from University of Electro-Communications

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