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</gallery>'''<u><big>Projects with Physarum Policephalum</big></u>''' | </gallery> | ||
'''<u><big>Projects with Physarum Policephalum</big></u>''' | |||
'''<big>Improving Tokyo's rail system (by Atsushi Tero from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)</big>''' | |||
While looking for food to continue growing the slime mold detects the food from afar and expands various brands in it's direction. When it has reached the food sources it only keeps the branches with the most efficient way of transporting the nutrients. | |||
Japanese scientists from the Hokkaido University in Sapporo used this characteristic to try and find room for improvement in Tokyo's rail system. | |||
They placed oat flakes in a wet dish resembling the locations of different major cities in the Tokyo area. Since the slime mold prefers dark places, it was possible for Tero to use bright light as mountains and lakes so that the slime mold would avoid these spots while growing towards the oat flakes. | |||
In the end the slime mold created a network which was very similar to the actual rail system. | |||
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/slime-mould-attacks-simulates-tokyo-rail-network | |||