The effect of spatially correlated noise on Turing structures is analyzed b
oth experimentally and numerically. Using the photosensitive character of t
he chlorine dioxide-iodine-malonic acid reaction-diffusion system, spatial
randomness is introduced in the system. In the presence of noise, Turing pa
tterns appear and are stable at levels of average illumination that would b
e more than sufficient to suppress pattern formation in the case of homogen
eous illumination.