This same kind of reaction-diffusion mechanism is responsible for skin patterns (stripes, spots, etc.) in a variety of animal species.

Perhaps striped paint will finally be a thing?

http://dare.wisc.edu/survey-results/1965-1970/types-and-atti...

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Ah yes, quite the curated dictionary.

If you are familiar with Conway's game of life, there is also "smooth life" which uses turing style reaction-diffusion equations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJe9H6qS82I

You can generate these SmoothLife patterns with Ready [0]

[0] https://github.com/GollyGang/ready/blob/gh-pages/Patterns/Sm...

I find USkate the most beautiful, http://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/uskate-world.html

Yes, the article spelt that out:

And if the two chemicals diffuse at different rates, you can get complex patterns or reaction products like spots or tiger stripes.

This might be the referred paper:

"The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" By A.M.Turing

http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....