How It Works
Multiple activator-inhibitor pairs operate at different blur radii. At each pixel, the scale with the smallest activator-minus-inhibitor magnitude wins, nudging the pixel value up or down. Spots form inside stripes inside whorls, all at different resolutions simultaneously.
Applications
Procedural texture generation for film and games, generative art producing surfaces unlike any other algorithm, mathematical study of multi-scale pattern formation and symmetry breaking.
random regenerates the noise seed·adjust scales to change pattern complexity·patterns emerge over several seconds