Quorum-Sensing Field: Autoinducer Diffusion Wave
2D reaction-diffusion model of the Vibrio fischeri / bobtail squid light-organ quorum-sensing switch: a spatial autoinducer field diffuses across the crypt cross-section, coupled to local bacterial growth and a Hill-function bioluminescence switch.
This is the spatial counterpart to the 3D squid light-organ simulator. Instead of one shared population number and one shared signal number, the autoinducer that Vibrio fischeri secretes is modeled as a concentration field that must physically diffuse across the crypt before every bacterium can "feel" the same signal — so the quorum switch does not flip everywhere at once, it spreads as a wave from wherever colonization is densest. The bacterial population still grows logistically at each point, but the reaction-diffusion coupling between population and signal is a genuinely 2D-native mechanism, not a flattened view of the 3D scene.
2D reaction-diffusion model of the Vibrio fischeri light-organ quorum-sensing switch: a spatial autoinducer concentration field diffuses across a grid shaped like the crypt's cross-section, coupled to local logistic bacterial growth and a per-pixel Hill-function bioluminescence switch, producing a genuine diffusion wave rather than an instant well-mixed flip.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install