Fig. 4.
The aspect ratio of a lattice determines the optimal magnitude of anisotropy in the direction of cell movement for quick recovery of synchronization. (A)–(D) Average IS over 2,000 simulations of 5, 10, and 20 cycles when each cell exchanged its location with one of its neighbors with each pl in a (A) 25 × 10 lattice, (B) a 16 × 16 lattice, (C) a 32 × 8 lattice, and (D) a 64 × 4 lattice. In (A)–(D), each cell experienced an exchange of its location with one of its neighbors within 5 min on average. The magnitude of the initial phase differences between cells was set to α = 1.0. We used 20 different initial conditions and ran 100 simulations for each initial condition. Error bars indicate standard deviations. Reaction parameter values in Eq. 2 were the standard parameter set listed in Appendix.