I had an idea to create a portrait of someone out of the invention that they discovered. Alan Turing came to mind as pioneer of multiple things, but who is still to this day under appreciated. So I set about learning to create Reaction diffusion or ‘Turing Patterns’ which he first calculated, in Blender and TouchDesigner. It’s pretty amazing reading about the life and work of Alan Turing. One thing that always fascinated me was his work into mathematical pattern generation which is now commonly called Reaction Diffusion or Turing patterns.

Taking the simple idea of using Blender or TouchDesigner to create a portrait of Alan Turing using Turing patterns. All of these animations you can see here are created using TouchDesigner. Due to not being able to find a large size portrait of Turing I first illustrated a realistic Black and White hi-res portrait of him using Photoshop. Then inputted the picture into TouchDesigner, where I created a feedback reaction diffusion loop. Then played around with the noise and feedback settings to create all these different growing and bleeding out animations.