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Biology of the Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium: Preliminaries for Unconventional Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Physarum Imitates Exploration and Colonisation of Planets

Authors : Andrew Adamatzky, Rachel Armstrong, Ben De Lacy Costello, Jeff Jones

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The slime mould is efficient in imitating formation of man-made road networks, where major urban areas are sources of nutrients. We used a similar approach to grow slime mould on a three-dimensional template of Moon to speculate on potential colonization scenarios. The slime mould imitated propagation of colonisation in an exploratory mode, i.e. without any definite targets. Additional transportation hubs/targets were added after the initial network was formed, to imitate the development of colonies in parallel to slime mould growth.

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Metadata
Title
Physarum Imitates Exploration and Colonisation of Planets
Authors
Andrew Adamatzky
Rachel Armstrong
Ben De Lacy Costello
Jeff Jones
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_20

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