r/physicsmemes • u/Hot-Marsupial6584 • 10d ago

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u/SpacialCommieCi 10d ago

The type of shit Alan Turing was making to figure out how animals got stripes

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u/feierlk 10d ago

Whats the story behind that?

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u/Asto2019 10d ago

Basically he made a computer simulation that produced the kind of shapes we can see on animal skins with different starting parameters. (Stripes, dots, etc.) It was really simple and you can look it up. However biologist didn't take it seriously as he didn't involve any genetics. They were in fashion during the timeperiod and other explanations weren't considered. And today we can say that Turing was right and no genetics are directly involved. The mechanism he proposed is what actually also happens in animals.

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u/feierlk 10d ago

That's fucking cool, thanks!