  Using QCD sum rules with nonlocal condensates, we show that the distribution
amplitude of the longitudinally polarized $\rho$-meson may have a shorttailed
platykurtic profile in close analogy to our recently proposed platykurtic
distribution amplitude for the pion. Such a chimera distribution de facto
amalgamates the broad unimodal profile of the distribution amplitude, obtained
with a Dyson-Schwinger equations-based computational scheme, with the
suppressed tails characterizing the bimodal distribution amplitudes derived
from QCD sum rules with nonlocal condensates. We argue that pattern formation,
emerging from the collective synchronization of coupled oscillators, can
provide a single theoretical scaffolding to study unimodal and bimodal
distribution amplitudes of light mesons without recourse to particular
computational schemes and the reasons for them.
