Search Spoonflower for 'turing6' for other colors of this design, or 'turingpattern' for more designs like this, and 'palemint' or 'spoonflower0229' for more designs in these colors. A Turing pattern is a type of pattern conceptualized by Alan Turing in 1952 to explain the formation of many natural patterns such as stripes on a cuttlefish, waves on a beach, atoms in a liquid-crystal display. I created this pattern as a derivative of an existing design I had already created.