Diffusion drawing
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In London, there is a sculpture called Quantum Cloud, where the silhouette of a person emerges out of steel bars, arranged to mimic a random walk (see Fig. 1). This made me curious about how one might replicate this effect: using random walks to paint an image.

One possibility is to make the random walker spend more time in dark areas and less time in light areas. The trajectory of a two-dimensional random walker is described by the Langevin equation
\[ d\mathbf{r} = \mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r}, t)\,dt + \mathbf{B}(\mathbf{r}, t)\,d\mathbf{W}(t). \tag{1} \]
This corresponds to the Fokker-Planck equation
\[ \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} = -\nabla \cdot \left(\mathbf{A}(\mathbf{r}, t)p\right) + \nabla^2 \left(D(\mathbf{r}, t)p\right). \tag{2} \]







