Congratulations to Siamak Mirfendereski, who led the work and is on the job market this year; please find him at AIChE this year.

Perhaps we can take inspiration from the imperfect beauty of natural systems and maybe even use these imperfections to impart functionality someday.

Analogy: Painting fish skin with watercolors results in blurry boundaries (classical Turing theory). Outlining watercolor with a Sharpie yields sharper patterns (prior work). Using sticky dots to paint increases the likelihood of imperfections, mimicking reality (this work).