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My first idea is to built a Physarum-inspired processing code with Cellular Automata models than make a comparison between the simulation and the behaviour of living Physarum colony. | |||
The first task would be to understand Physarum models of network - Understanding beneficial network structures that Physarum polycephalum solves. | |||
Slime molds seem to be very good at networking. They have no central information processing unit like a brain but manages to solve more complicated tasks which can not be explained through the Darwinian mechanisms of genetic mutation and natural selection. It can find the shortest path through a maze or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length, yet short average minimum distance between pairs of food sources. For example in a famous study slime mold connects scattered food crumbs in a design that’s nearly identical to Tokyo’s rail system. | Slime molds seem to be very good at networking. They have no central information processing unit like a brain but manages to solve more complicated tasks which can not be explained through the Darwinian mechanisms of genetic mutation and natural selection. It can find the shortest path through a maze or connect different arrays of food sources in an efficient manner with low total length, yet short average minimum distance between pairs of food sources. For example in a famous study slime mold connects scattered food crumbs in a design that’s nearly identical to Tokyo’s rail system. |
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