Figure 7. Dynamically detected clusters (DDC vectors) for 10⁻⁶<f<1 (right) re-sorted and colored according to the CN reference (left), as described in Figure 3.

In this reference, the nodes sharing the same color have the same distance d to the central node h (see Figure 3 top row). Up to a value of f = 10⁻³, the equidistant nodes are almost completely integrated dynamically according to this topological reference. In this f-regime the dynamics is characterized by excitation waves (spikes), which cover the whole system and which emerge from h preferentially and independently of the location of the accidentally excited node. The increasing scattering of colors for higher values of f indicates a change of the dynamic regime, the spike dynamics is increasingly replaced by burst dynamics.