Monday, February 27, 2012

turing's simple morphogenetic model verified

Alan Turing, mathematician who helped crack German codes during the second world war
".. an activator and an inhibitor work together, a pencil and eraser."

" The activator’s expression would do something—say, make a stripe—
and the inhibitor would shut off the activator.
This repeats, and voilà, stripe after stripe after stripe."