The Slime Mould Collective

An international network of/for intelligent organisms

SLIMOCO brings together artists, scientists and others interested in slime moulds - to share research, knowledge, experiments, images...

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Artwork project - in need of high res slime mould imagery to draw from

Started by Emilie Pugh in Links & Resources 16 hours ago. 0 Replies

Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes

Started by Dan Power in Links & Resources. Last reply by Dan Power Nov 18. 8 Replies

How to get a physarum culture

Started by ian in Links & Resources. Last reply by Blaserk Oct 21. 124 Replies

Daywalker availability?

Started by Blaserk in Links & Resources Oct 21. 0 Replies

11 Year Old Science Project

Started by Ted Goranson in Projects & Ideas Aug 25. 0 Replies

How Dark , is Dark

Started by Don Recardo in Links & Resources. Last reply by Don Recardo Jul 26. 2 Replies

Request for Carolina strain!

Started by Liam in Links & Resources Jul 24. 0 Replies

Receiving culture

Started by Katie in Links & Resources. Last reply by Susan Dexter May 24. 8 Replies

Scammers on the site

Started by G in Ramblings. Last reply by Adrian Evans Feb 19. 5 Replies

algorithmic model of slime mould decision making

Started by matilde sartori in Projects & Ideas Jan 21. 0 Replies

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Colourful mould experiment! (Images)

Posted by Liam on August 18, 2024 at 9:31 0 Comments

Advice on slime mould mazes? - A request

Posted by G on June 13, 2024 at 11:21 2 Comments

Physarum

Posted by Duan on October 3, 2023 at 14:23 0 Comments

If you are a professional, I would love to hop on a call about Physarum!

Posted by Emile Marija on August 29, 2023 at 23:08 1 Comment

Physarum Roseum

Posted by Robert on August 26, 2023 at 3:13 0 Comments

First sclerotia!

Posted by Ben Gruver on July 31, 2023 at 15:04 0 Comments

Slime Mold Integrated Wearable Device

Posted by Jasmine Lu on November 14, 2022 at 21:57 2 Comments

sclerotium for a treatise anyone?

Posted by Aaron Senitt on October 2, 2022 at 23:35 0 Comments

Unidentified other mold

Posted by Mimi Osborne on November 25, 2021 at 20:37 1 Comment

Slime Mould commission

Posted by Núria Rovira Terradas on November 18, 2021 at 13:23 0 Comments

Top Content 

1 Slime mould experiment ideas for a lab report

Slime mould experiment ideas for a lab report
2 Why slime?

Why slime?
3 Sourcing Physarum

Sourcing Physarum
4 Substrate experiment

Substrate experiment
5 On enclosures

On enclosures
6 Metatrichia floriformis

Metatrichia floriformis
7 Lamproderma echinulatum

Lamproderma echinulatum
8 Elaeomyxa cerifera 1262

Elaeomyxa cerifera 1262
9 Physarum population density effect on pattern formation and granularity - Sensor Offset (SO): 3

Physarum population density effect on pattern formation and granularity - Sensor Offset (SO): 3
10 population density 1 - 72

population density 1 - 72
 

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The Slime Mould Collective is a portal for interesting, progressive and ground breaking research and creative practice working with the simple yet intelligent organisms. If you are involved with or interested in slime moulds as a scientist, artist, designer, teacher, philosopher... (etc), please join and share what you do...

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Emilie Pugh posted a discussion

Artwork project - in need of high res slime mould imagery to draw from

Hi slime mould collective, I’ve been a member here for about 8 years ! I haven’t managed to successfully grow slime mould in the way I’d like.. but I have been given this unusual charity project to decorate an object and I want to cover it in hand…See More
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Dan Power replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"Hello! I got the photos and they’re great, thank you so much! "
Nov 18
Vicente Lopes replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"Hi Dan, Just sent the e-mail, let me know if you got it! Vicente"
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Dan Power replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"This looks great! Great timing as I’m about to start on small oil painting studies and can use this one! I will retouch/ edit the photos slightly for the actual paintings so I’m not too concerned about the timing, I plan to include…"
Nov 13
Vicente Lopes replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"Here is one of the samples. I have 12 photos of different colonies, I think I was a bit late so maybe 1 day of growth is better than 2 days. Let me know how I can send the other photos and what you think. Vicente"
Nov 12
Dan Power replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"That would be incredible thank you! Feel free to send through any photos of previous colonies, - especially those with a more organic layout - but I’m excited to see the geometric patters too!"
Nov 10
Vicente Lopes replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"I've currently started 12 circular colonies with oats spread out in varying random and geometric presets (triangle, square, pentagon, etc...). Later this week, I'll photograph them once they look good and developed! Vicente"
Nov 10
Dan Power replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"Hi Vicente, thank you for your interest and quick reply!I would love a sample of 10-20 happy slime mould colonies, ideally growing in round containers or Petri dishes with a few dense clusters or nodes linked together with some main arteries and…"
Nov 6
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Vicente Lopes replied to Dan Power's discussion Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
"Hi Dan, I'm willing to help with the source material! Let me know the specifications you might have in mind."
Nov 5
Dan Power posted a discussion

Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes

Hey Slime friendsI’m an Australian artist/science communicator currently working on an exhibition on soil, fungus, slime and insects. I’ve been building up to a work that explores de-centralised intelligence in ant super colonies, and what better…See More
Nov 4
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Dan Power posted a status
"Hey slime friends! I’m an Australian artist making a work on decentralised intelligence. I’m looking for reference photos of round colonies!"
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