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From: On the efficiency of chemotactic pursuit - Comparing blind search with temporal and spatial gradient sensing

Figure 2

Blind search BLS (a–c) and Random Mode Switching (d–f). Left column (a,d): Optimum parameters for an immune cell that faces a mixed ensemble of targets with random speeds and persistences. Middle column (b,e): Search efficiency of the optimized immune cell when facing a pure ensemble of targets with fixed speed vtar and fixed persistence εtar. Right column (c,f): Example configuration of static targets (orange dots), concentration distribution of the guiding substance (color code), and trajectory of the immune cell (small gray dots) over an extended period of 500 min.

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