{"id":766,"date":"2008-11-24T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=766"},"modified":"2008-11-24T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:37:52","slug":"a-kettle-from-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/11\/24\/a-kettle-from-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"A kettle from Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rust inside this kettle shows an emergent pattern that is typical of the self-organising dynamics of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reaction-diffusion\">reaction-diffusion systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dublinkettle.jpg\" title=''><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dublinkettle.jpg?w=580\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One example of self-organising dynamics is in the topographic map of <a href=\"http:\/\/hubel.med.harvard.edu\/b27.htm\">ocular dominance columns<\/a> in the visual cortex. These intricate maps display a fascinating combination and interplay of regularity and irregularity. Such patterns have been modelled by computational neuroscientists using the <i>Kohonen algorithm<\/i> and variants<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the picture Cat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rust inside this kettle shows an emergent pattern that is typical of the self-organising dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems. One example of self-organising dynamics is in the topographic map of ocular dominance columns in the visual cortex. These intricate maps display a fascinating combination and interplay of regularity and irregularity. Such patterns have been modelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-systems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-cm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}