Figure 21
From: Coverage, continuity, and visual cortical architecture
Illustration of the EN energy landscape close to pattern formation threshold. The variation of the energy between states of ideal OS, the 2-ECP state, sPWC and possible mode configurations for 8-ECPs is shown for the case that (a) the OS state has the lowest energy (s4 = 0, σ/Λ = 0.3), (b) the sPWC state has the lowest energy (s4 = 0, σ/Λ = 0.1), and (c) the most anisotropic 8-ECP has lowest energy (s4 = 100, σ/Λ = 0.8). The energy values between the state are computed from a state obtained by linear interpolation between two neighboring states on the x-axis. Note that not all local minima in a-c correspond to a stable fixed point of the amplitude dynamics (see text).