The beautiful book The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells demonstrates how an impressive variety of seashell patterns can be described with a fairly simple activator-inhibitor function. I rewrote the book's algorithms in Javascript and made an interactive notebook for anyone to generate a great variety of seashell patterns.
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