Turning into Turing (2022)

Has somebody already done this? Since this is one of those super simple things that anyone can do—they just need to be the first to find it,—I was worried I had spent a whole bunch of time repeating something someone else had done already. I was also aware of other projects that use repeated actions to expose generational loss that I mentioned earlier, but nothing that focused specifically on rotation as the impetus, and nothing that ended up with Turing patterns. After some cybersearching, I could only find things that were close, but nothing that hit on the Turing pattern aspect. I think the closest was all the way back in 1999 when Helmut Dersch tested the quality of different interpolation algorithms by rotating images in 5° increments 36 times to 180° of the original (I chose 5° for my original samples in their honor). I am including a resampling of the images they used in the tests to give a look at what Helmet might have discovered back then. The second closest was a variation ... Read full article.