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This experiment started as a search of knowledge about the behaviour of Slime mold "Physarum Polycephalum" and its aesthetic capabilities and potential uses in the animation area. First through sound, then through the influence of light and at the end through the combination of different food sources. | This experiment started as a search of knowledge about the behaviour of Slime mold "Physarum Polycephalum" and its aesthetic capabilities and potential uses in the animation area. First through sound, then through the influence of light and at the end through the combination of different food sources. | ||
It was important to replace oat flakes , wich have been used in almost every experimentation with Slime mould and in this manner develop an aesthetic that allows us to appreciate the organism structure and its ways of displacement and behaviour in different environments. | It was important to replace oat flakes , wich have been used in almost every experimentation with Slime mould and in this manner develop an aesthetic that allows us to appreciate the organism structure and its ways of displacement and behaviour in different environments. | ||
During the experimentation the interaction of Physarum with nutrients with high levels in proteins and carbohydrates was more and more remarkable. Its response to these nutrients showed that there is the possibility of training the Slime mould up to three generations so that it prefers to feed on a type of nutrient and displace it self through patterns drawn with this nutrient. Achieving this process there is the possibility of removing the organism from its purely biological context and getting it to become a pictorial tool. | |||