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Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations

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December 2009

The following applet, kindly provided by Chris Jennings, allows you to play with the paramters governing the diffusion rates and see a pattern evolve. The applet requires that your browser support at least the Java 6 runtime. Click here to install the latest version of Java. Unfortunately, this applet does not currently work on all Intel-based Macs.

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