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Grows coral, mazes, spots and dividing cells from a few seeds — a living chemical pattern

Two invisible chemicals spread across the frame: one keeps being fed in, the other eats it and multiplies. Where they meet, they settle into shapes nobody drew, the same process Alan Turing proposed for the stripes on a zebra and the spots on a leopard. Drop a few seeds and it grows coral, winding mazes, fields of dots or cells that keep dividing. It is alive, so it never repeats, and clipped into a word it grows inside the letters.