This is a Java maven project that implements a reaction diffusion system in Java.
It has a simple GUI to visualize the reaction diffusion process and control settings.
Resizing the window will restart the process.
Execute Main.main() to start the app. Maven will package a fat jar that can be executed with java -jar target/reaction-diffusion-1.0.jar.
Mouse left click+drag will paint in the grid.
Right click will report to the console the current state of the grid at the mouse position.
Use File > Starter or File > Load to load an image in the top left corner as a reaction starting point.
The reaction diffusion process runs better in a multi-core CPU, as the process is parallelized. If you have a single core CPU, you may want to reduce the number of iterations per frame to improve responsiveness.
If the app is not responding well, try this: locate gui.OutputPanel.paintComponent()
and change
for(int i=0;i<10;++i) {
model.performReactionDiffusion();
}by replacing 10 with a smaller number. The animation is running 10 iterations per frame, and a lower number will slow the process down, but it will be more responsive.
All the color choices are made in View.updateImage(). Try replacing rainbow() with something else.
https://www.karlsims.com/rd.html https://github.com/jasonwebb/morphogenesis-resources#reaction-diffusion