Turing pattern

English

Three examples of Turing patterns

Etymology

Introduced by English mathematician Alan Turing in a 1952 paper titled The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.

Noun

Turing pattern (plural Turing patterns)

1. (biology, mathematics) A pattern, found in nature, that arises naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state, through instability.

Related terms

• Turing instability

Further reading

• Turing pattern on Wikipedia.Wikipedia