© Alexander Lancaster and Gordon Webster 2019
A. Lancaster, G. WebsterPython for the Life Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4523-1_16

16. How the Leopard Got its Spots

Cellular Automata Models of Turing Patterns
Alexander Lancaster1  and Gordon Webster1
(1)
Amber Biology, Cambridge, MA, USA
 

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Alice realized that she hated the silly game the King and Queen had made her play all day.

“What if we could use the same board, but didn’t have to worry about somebody always having to win?”

“Yes,” she murmured to herself, “I would just have each square just change color depending on who its neighbors were. Then, I would just start them off all randomly, ...

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