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Zebrafish have been used as a model organism in many areas of biology, including the study of pattern formation. The mean-field survival model is a coupled ODE system describing the expected evolution of chromatophores coordinating to form…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-19 Robert Jencks

Originating from the diffusion phenomenon in physics that describes particle movement, the diffusion generative models inherit the characteristics of stochastic random walk in the data space along the denoising trajectory. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ruoyu Wang , Yongqi Yang , Zhihao Qian , Ye Zhu , Yu Wu

The spontaneous emergence of ordered structures, known as Turing patterns, in complex networks is a phenomenon that holds potential applications across diverse scientific fields, including biology, chemistry, and physics. Here, we present a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-26 Jiaying Zhou , Yong Ye , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gómez , Yi Zhao

We hereby develop the theory of Turing instability for reaction-diffusion systems defined on m-directed hypergraphs, the latter being generalization of hypergraphs where nodes forming hyperedges can be shared into two disjoint sets, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Marie Dorchain , Wilfried Segnou , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti

The emergence of stable disordered patterns in reactive system on spatially homogenous substrate is studied in the context of vegetation patterns in the semi-arid climatic zone. It is shown that reaction-diffusion systems that allow for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Alon Manor , Nadav M. Shnerb

Reaction-diffusion systems have been proposed as a model for pattern formation and morphogenesis. The Fickian diffusion typically employed in these constructions model the Brownian motion of particles. The biological and chemical elements…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-09 Siddhartha Srivastava , Krishna Garikipati

Self-organization, the ability of a system of microscopically interacting entities to shape macroscopically ordered structures, is ubiquitous in Nature. Spatio-temporal patterns are abundantly observed in a large plethora of applications,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-17 Malbor Asllani , Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Philip K. Maini

Climate change is reshaping species interactions and movement across fragmented landscapes. Despite this, most mathematical models assume random diffusion, overlooking the influence of directed movement. Here, we develop a graph based…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Pranali Roy Chowdhury , Soumyendu Raha

We show that the Turing patterns in reaction systems with subdiffusion can be replicated in an effective system with Markovian cross-diffusion. The effective system has the same Turing instability as the original system, and the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-29 Joseph W. Baron , Tobias Galla

We present a data-driven method for learning to generate animations of 3D garments using a 2D image diffusion model. In contrast to existing methods, typically based on fully connected networks, graph neural networks, or generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Raquel Vidaurre , Elena Garces , Dan Casas

Cells and organisms follow aligned structures in their environment, a process that can generate persistent migration paths. Kinetic transport equations are a popular modelling tool for describing biological movements at the mesoscopic…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-13 Nadia Loy , Thomas Hillen , Kevin John Painter

Drifting pattern domains (DPDs), moving localized patches of traveling waves embedded in a stationary (Turing) pattern background and vice versa, are observed in simulations of a reaction-diffusion model with nonlocal coupling. Within this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernesto M. Nicola , Michal Or-Guil , Wilfried Wolf , Markus Baer

Symmetry-breaking instabilities play an important role in understanding the mechanisms underlying the diversity of patterns observed in nature, such as in Turing's reaction--diffusion theory, which connects cellular signalling and transport…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-25 Andrew L. Krause , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Thomas Jun Jewell , Václav Klika , Benjamin J. Walker

We construct a dynamical system for a reaction diffusion system due to Murray, which relies on the use of the Thomas system nonlinearities and describes the formation of animal coat patterns. First, we prove existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Ton Viet Ta

The Turing pattern model is one type of reaction-diffusion (RD) model. The first identification of pattern formation by the Turing pattern model in an actual animal was made in the 1990s with the observation of patterns in the sea anemone.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-15 Takeshi Ishida

It is well known that simple reaction-diffusion systems can display very rich pattern formation behavior. Here we have studied two examples of such systems in three dimensions. First we investigate the morphology and stability of a generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Teemu Leppanen , Mikko Karttunen , Kimmo Kaski , Rafael A. Barrio , Limei Zhang

The concept of Turing instability, namely that diffusion can destabilize the uniform steady state, is well known either in the context of partial differential equations (PDEs) or in networks of dynamical systems. Recently reaction-diffusion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Christian Kuehn , Cinzia Soresina

Diffusion models excel at generation, but their latent spaces are high dimensional and not explicitly organized for interpretation or control. We introduce ConDA (Contrastive Diffusion Alignment), a plug-and-play geometry layer that applies…

The Turing patterning mechanism is believed to underly the formation of repetitive structures in development, such as zebrafish stripes and mammalian digits, but it has proved difficult to isolate the specific biochemical species…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-22 Stephen Smith , Neil Dalchau

Understanding the structure of real data is paramount in advancing modern deep-learning methodologies. Natural data such as images are believed to be composed of features organized in a hierarchical and combinatorial manner, which neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-25 Antonio Sclocchi , Alessandro Favero , Matthieu Wyart