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Revision as of 12:27, 2 September 2014
You must be wondering where these patterns on snea snail shells come from. What if they would come from a simple rule, followed by all cells on the shell ?
As a matter of fact, many of the complex patterns you can see in nature come from simple rules. It is the case for hurricanes, flocks of birds, neural networks... We call this phenomenon emergence. Emergent phenomena are not predictable from the initial situation and this is why they surprise us. If you are interested in emergence of complexity in general, you can read more about the background of our project.
