Road planning with slime mould (2009)

by benbreen • 7 years ago

38 5 7 years ago

BBC showing timelapse: https://youtu.be/HyzT5b0tNtk

PavlovsCat• 7 years ago

The southern bit doesn't strike me as efficient at all. to go to a neighbouring blob, you'd have to go all the way to the central one, and then back down again.

leggomylibro• 7 years ago

I wnder if you could build elevation into this sort of 'analog simulation', maybe in the form of something that a slime mould doesn't like to grow over?

It would probably be tough to get them to grow like switchbacks, tunnels, and bridges though...

jnty• 7 years ago

"When making experiments it is difficult to resist an impulse to imitate a largescale disaster leading to contamination of one of the urban areas spreading to the surrounding areas."

Sim City players and biology academics are basically the same then, it would seem!

g4d• 7 years ago

I enjoyed the specificity of ASDA smart price rolled oats. I wonder what effect premium Quaker oats would have had.

Road planning with slime mould (2009)

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