Thirty eight things to do with live slime mould

Slime mould \emph{Physarum polycephalum} is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralised actuation. The ease of culturing and experimenting with Physarum makes this slime mould an ideal substrate for real-world implementations of unconventional sensing and computing devices. In the last decade the Physarum became a swiss knife of the unconventional computing: give the slime mould a problem it will solve it. We provide a concise summary of what exact computing and sensing operations are implemented with live slime mould. The Physarum devices range from morphological processors for computational geometry to experimental archeology tools, from self-routing wires to memristors, from devices approximating a shortest path to analog physical models of space exploration.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2015-12-27

• Fields of study

  Biology, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  arXiv 1512.08230
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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