Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum: illustrations to papers
Four days of plasmodium's life
Four days of non-stop filming.
Playback 15 mins of plasmodium life in 1 sec of play.
Two interruptions (30 sec each) -- to give more
water and to add one more oat flake.
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Wave-fragment propagation similar to that in sub-excitable BZ systems.
Implementation of addressing using food colorings
Plasmodium on the micro-electrode array
Papers
Adamatzky A., Physarum machines: encapsulating reaction-diffusion to compute spanning tree, Naturwissenschaften (2007), in press.
Adamatzky A., Growing spanning trees in plasmodium machines, Kybernetes (2007), in press.
Adamatzky A., Physarum machine: implementation of Kolmogorov-Uspensky machine in biological substrate, Parallel Processing Letters (2007), in press.
Plasmodium on aluminum foil
Problem: Given nodes labeled R, G, B, Y, connect only G, B, Y nodes in a chain.
Solution
Steiner tree computer by plasmodium