Physarum Experiment No: 012 - The Maze

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Uploaded by on Aug 30, 2009

Can the slime mould find the shortest route to its food?
Part of artist Heather Barnetts experiments working with biological materials.
See slimoco.ning.com for more information about the project.

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  • well done, really great video! How did the imaging work? That is, dicty is usually clear, why is it yellow here? and why does only the advancing front show color? Do you have any high quality videos of this search process?

  • @thesoundofscience

    Yellow is the natural colour of this slime mould (Physarum Polycephalum). Haven't worked with dicty yet...

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  • Who was the a-hole who decided to put the food higher up?? Poor mold. :(

  • I feel bad for the poor slime mold :(

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  • maybe it doesn't LIKE oats? and was just wandering around anyway...

  • Bastard! You killed the mold! :(

  • @flensingknife yeah but the probability haha, it's almost as if it was trying to fail

  • @themasteriswatching

    Umm.... it's a slime mold... Completely unconscious is pretty much exactly what it is.

  • DAMMMN don't play with food like that

  • I salute you, brave mold. Your sacrifice lets us know you a little better.

  • Hahaha it went everywhere except the oats. You'd have to be completely unconscious to not detect them

  • poor slime mold.

  • it died

  • Nice video, I would increase saturation a bit.

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