Here is the link to that Plus article:
http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec09/bubbles/index.html
None of the animations in that video you link to are mine, but I do know Stephen Hyde's work, and it has been an inspiration.
The applets on Michael Cross' site are very nice. I wonder if something similar could be used on a curved surface to find panelizations.

Of course it could. I'm not sure what panelization means but you might find Greg Turk's pages interesting.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/reaction_diffusion/reaction_diffusio...

Cool, that's just the sort of thing I was thinking of. Very interesting thanks.