Cuttlefish camouflage skin patterns are categorized in “skin pattern space” (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Cuttlefish camouflage skin patterns are categorized in “skin pattern space”

Caption

Here, each black dot represents a skin pattern produced by a single cuttlefish. In the same way that every color can be placed in a specific location on a color wheel, cuttlefish skin patterns can be analyzed by neural networks and assigned a specific location in “skin pattern space”. Although represented here in 2D, skin pattern space has multiple dimensions, representing the many complex elements that make up a skin pattern.

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OIST and MPI

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