Uploaded January 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Simulation of a complex vortex pattern in an excitable reaction-diffusion system. The blue spheres are unexcitable obstacles. The vortex waves (orange) rotate around the white lines. The latter are called filaments and form the rotation backbone of the wave pattern. Filaments cannot end in the middle of the system but must either terminate at the system walls or the embedded obstacles. This simulation is based on the Barkley model.
Simulation of a complex vortex pattern in an excitable reaction-diffusion system. The blue spheres are unexcitable obstacles. The vortex waves (orange) rotate around the white lines. The latter are called filaments and form the rotation backbone of the wave pattern. Filaments cannot end in the middle of the system but must either terminate at the system walls or the embedded obstacles. This simulation is based on the Barkley model.
