Turing Patterns in Photoshop
Andrew Werth

Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 459–462
Short Papers

Abstract

Turing patterns, a kind of pattern that forms in nature as the result of reaction-diffusion processes, may be generated in Photoshop (or other image editing tools) by repeatedly blurring and sharpening a seed image. This paper explains mathematically why these image processing steps fit a type of reaction-diffusion model and describes how the author uses Photoshop Turing patterns as a starting point for abstract acrylic paintings.

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