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Reaction–diffusion — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. Which patterns grow on a ring of circumference 1.40. Modes 4 to 15 have positive growth rates and mode 8 is fastest. Integrating the full equations from a disordered start gives 8 peaks.

    Turing's last problem

    Turing's final work was on phyllotaxis and it was unpublished when he died. Its core is a ring of cells and two diffusing substances, and the thing it does is select a number of peaks — which can be predicted from the equations before anything is integrated, and then counted from what the integration produces.

    part 1 · mechanism

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