Diversity (For Alan and Keith)

Mapping the Gray-Scott model to the UV plane provides a continuous view of all the possible shapes this model can produce. This image is familiar to researchers in complex systems science, and there is nothing novel here in a scientific sense. However, if you display this pattern using the fastest PC available to you, at the maximum resolution that can be interactively displayed, you will find that it produces richer shapes than you can imagine. In the future, as PCs become faster, we will be able to visualize a finer and finer world, and we will encounter unknown forms.

This seems to apply not only to the Turing pattern, but to many other things as well. Advances in science and technology will allow us to look at the world in greater depth and detail in the years to come. What we thought were only two classifications for a given subject may actually be nine, and as more science advances, the existence of tens of thousands of patterns may become apparent.

In the 1950s when Alan Turing died, homosexuality was a crime. Until Keith Haring's death in 1990, the WHO classified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In the 21st century, the term “diversity” became widespread, and the spectrum of sexual identities encompassing LGBTQ was finally recognized. Yet, it still feels like many people lack understanding of such gender identities. It's as if they stubbornly continue using outdated PCs, trapped in a low-resolution world. Living in an era of increasing speed and high resolution, don't we need a perspective that views the world as a complex system?