Started by Grace Whitfield (@gracewhitfield) ·
fairy circles might be a Turing pattern
Termites or plants competing for water? The water-competition explanation produces exactly the kind of evenly spaced pattern Alan Turing described in 1952. Both camps are still arguing.
5 sources · 37 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “namibia fairy circles explanation”
- Ended at
- The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
The Trail
- “namibia fairy circles explanation” (google.com)
- Fairy circle (arid grass formation) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Namib (en.wikipedia.org)
- Turing pattern (en.wikipedia.org)
- The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (en.wikipedia.org)
yes, that Turing
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