Petri · a breedable garden of living patterns

reaction-diffusion morphogenesis

Each specimen is a genome — a handful of numbers that grow into a living Turing pattern. Breed two and the offspring inherits a crossover of their genes, plus mutation, and grows something new. Every specimen is a shareable seed code. Click the dish to perturb it.

click to perturb · patterns evolve continuously
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Breeding

mutation
pick 2 parents

Tap the + on two cards to choose parents.

Garden

Grow from a code

Turing's 1952 reaction-diffusion model, made breedable. Everything runs locally; your garden is saved in this browser.