SHAPES

This section moves from color to the forces and rules that govern how shapes and patterns emerge in the universe. The Mechanics of Form and Creating Patterns: Spots, Stars, and Stripes.

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THE GRAND ARCHITECT

The grand architect in the shaping of life is Morphogenesis. The general definition of morphogenesis is: The biological process of forming shape.

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MORPHOGENESIS

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ALAN TURING

TURING PATTERN FORMATION

The spontaneous design and logic of spots, stars, and stripes. Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion model and work on pattern formation was published in 1952. It provided a mathematical model that showed how simple math creates complex, biological patterns and how uniform chemical systems (activator and inhibitor morphogens) spontaneously generate complex non-uniform patterns (biological morphogenesis).