A new theory enables the simulation of complex pattern formation in biological systems across different spatial and temporal scales.

Programming in Flash is the province of ActionScript, Macromedia’s homegrown language that owes much of its design to JavaScript (more accurately, it is based on ECMAscript).

Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal bores that surge upstream against the current. Specifically, two shockwave-like tidal bores, known as undular ...