Slime mold

This research aims to create autopoietic glass surfaces with Slime mold.

 

Physarum polycephalum, a single-cell organism found in decaying vegetation, especially in dark, damp, wooded landscapes, appears as a slimy blob. Slime mold is our guide to “semi-intelligent” life form : it has no brain, no nervous system, no body and no feet; yet it knows to travel the shortest path to its food, navigates through mazes, is able to build networks with hierarchical channels, and can change its habits.This simple-complex organism has been used to model computational devices and study co-operative mentality.

I seek ways in which Slime mold can interact with glass particles, potentially push them around, to create surfaces and forms that the human hand simply cannot.