Ben-Jacob, Eshel; Shochet, Ofer; Tenenbaum, Adam; Cohen, Inon; Czirók, András; Vicsek, Tamás Fractal patterns and complexity during diffusive growth of bacterial colonies. (English) Zbl 0880.92006 Symmetry Cult. Sci. 4, No. 3, 303-317 (1993). We present a communicating walkers model to study the effect of local bacterium-bacterium interaction. We will demonstrate how communication enables the colony to develop complex patterns in adaptation to adverse growth conditions. This model represents a generic modeling approach which is similar in spirit to the model proposed by D. Kessler and H. Levine [Pattern formation in dictyostelium via cooperative ‘bion’ dynamics. Preprint (1993)] to describe aggregation of Dictyostelium and D. Kessler’s approach [Contemp. Phys. 26, 147 ff (1985)] in the study of ‘microbial convection pattern’. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 92C15 Developmental biology, pattern formation 00A69 General applied mathematics Keywords:pattern formation; communicating walkers model; bacterium-bacterium interaction; growth PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{E. Ben-Jacob} et al., Symmetry Cult. Sci. 4, No. 3, 303--317 (1993; Zbl 0880.92006)